/ English Dictionary

HHS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979

Synonyms:

Department of Health and Human Services; Health and Human Services; HHS

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("HHS" is a kind of...):

executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "HHS"):

FDA; Food and Drug Administration (a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products)

CDC; Center for Disease Control and Prevention (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))

PHS; United States Public Health Service (an agency that serves as the office of Surgeon General; includes agencies whose mission is to improve the public health)

National Institutes of Health; NIH (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)

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