department of health and human services
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1. the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979 (noun.group)
| hypernym | : | executive department, |
| definition | : | a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States (noun.group) |
| part holonym | : | fda, food and drug administration, |
| definition | : | a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products (noun.group) |
| part holonym | : | cdc, center for disease control and prevention, |
| definition | : | a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services; located in Atlanta; investigates and diagnoses and tries to control or prevent diseases (especially new and unusual diseases) (noun.group) |
| part holonym | : | phs, united states public health service, |
| definition | : | an agency that serves as the office of Surgeon General; includes agencies whose mission is to improve the public health (noun.group) |
| part holonym | : | national institutes of health, nih, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.group) |
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