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MRI en · NOUN

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1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, especially, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of magnetic resonance imaging.
   alt of magnetic resonance imaging
   • Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story. 2012 March 14, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page 106:
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of MRI scan (“magnetic resonance imaging scan”), an MRI radiogram, an initialism of magnetic resonance image
   alt of MRI scan
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of MRI machine (“magnetic resonance imaging machine”), an MRI radiograph, initialism of magnetic resonance imager.
   alt of MRI machine

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Deriveds

fMRI scan · MRI scan · DW-MRI · fMRI · MR

Relateds

NMR · CT (magnetic resonance imaging) · PET (magnetic resonance imaging) · CAT (magnetic resonance imaging) · X-ray (magnetic resonance imaging) · nuclear magnetic resonance

Synonyms

MR

Translations (11)

sjo ᠠᡞᠮ ᠠᠯ ᠠᡞ (magnetic resonance imaging — see also magnetic resonance imaging) · de MRT (magnetic resonance imaging — see also magnetic resonance imaging) · fa امآرآی (magnetic resonance imaging — see also magnetic resonance imaging) · hy ՄՌՇ (magnetic resonance imaging — see also magnetic resonance imaging) · es IRM (magnetic resonance imaging — see also magnetic resonance imaging) · pt IRM (magnetic resonance imaging — see also magnetic resonance imaging) · es TRM (magnetic resonance imaging — see also magnetic resonance imaging) · hy ՄՌՏ (magnetic resonance imaging — see also magnetic resonance imaging) · fi magneettikuvaus (magnetic resonance imaging — see also magnetic resonance imaging) · az MRT (magnetic resonance imaging — see also magnetic resonance imaging) · ru МРТ (magnetic resonance imaging — see also magnetic resonance imaging)

wikidata: Q161238

MRI en · VERB

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1. (rare, transitive) To take an MRI scan of.
   • When the delirium stopped and it was safe to take Versed, her doctors doped her up and she managed to endure the MRI, on condition that I remain with her all the time. They MRIed her skull for thirty minutes, and two days later MRIed her spine for an hour. 2005, Donald Hall, The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, pages 99–100:
   • Remarkably, no one to that point had suggested MRIing my leg, which is where my pain actually was. Everyone surmised that the issue was really in my back. Dr. Smith scheduled an MRI for that very day. 2014, Mark Herzlich, What It Takes: Fighting For My Life and My Love of the Game, New York, NY: New American Library, →ISBN, page 74:

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