Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. 
 an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health; 
 is the principal biomedical research agency of the federal government; 
[syn: National Institutes of Health, NIH]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
NIH
    n 1: an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services
         whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of
         knowledge to improve human health; is the principal
         biomedical research agency of the federal government [syn:
         National Institutes of Health, NIH]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
NIH
   The United States National Institutes of Health.