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fMRI

fMRI is the initialism of functional magnetic resonance imaging.

fMRI is the initialism of functional magnetic resonance imager.

fMRI is the initialism of functional magnetic resonance image.

Meaning of functional magnetic resonance imaging

Noun

functional magnetic resonance imaging (uncountable, abbreviation fMRI)

  1. A form of magnetic resonance imaging that records the flow of blood to areas of the brain when the patient is undertaking a specific neural activity.
    • The women underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which measures changes in blood flow that happen with brain activity, while being shown images of their grandchild, another child they didn’t know, an adult they didn’t know, and the same-sex parent of their grandchild.2021 November 19, Madeline Holcombe, “Is your mom warmer with her grandkids than with you? A new study says blame biology”, in CNN

Synonyms of fMRI

  • fMRI scanning
  • fMRI scanner
  • fMRI machine
  • fMRI scan
  • functional MRI

Forms of fMRI

pluralfMRIs

Origin of fMRI

From f- + MRI.

Words formed from fMRI

  • fMRI machine
  • fMRI scan
  • fMRI scanner
  • fMRI scanning

Questions about fMRI

What is fMRI the initialism of?
FMRI is the initialism of functional magnetic resonance imaging.

Words near fMRI in the dictionary

  1. fmols
  2. FMQ
  3. FMQs
  4. fmr
  5. fmr.
  6. fMRI
  7. fMRIs
  8. FMS
  9. fmt
  10. FMTV
  11. fmu

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fMRI (page history and authors); functional magnetic resonance imaging (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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