---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 286b–1"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "286b–1"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/286b-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III — National Research Institutes"
  - "Part D — National Library of Medicine"
  - "Subpart 2 — financial assistance"
---

# §286b–1. Definitions


As used in this subpart—

- (1) the term “medical library” means a library related to the [sciences related to health](#2); and
- (2) the term “sciences related to health” includes medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, and public health, and fundamental and applied sciences when related thereto.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 470, as added Pub. L. 99–158, § 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 860.)