(n) 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. NIH
[おうようかがくだいがく, ouyoukagakudaigaku] (n) university of applied science (e.g. the Dutch "Hogeschool" and the German "Fachhochschule" institutes of higher education)