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MRI

MRI is the initialism of magnetic resonance imaging.

MRI is the ellipsis of MRI scan.

MRI is the ellipsis of MRI machine.

Meaning of magnetic resonance imaging

Noun

magnetic resonance imaging (countable and uncountable, plural magnetic resonance imagings)

  1. (uncountable) A technique that uses nuclear magnetic resonance to form cross sectional images of the human body for diagnostic purposes.
    Synonyms:
    MRI
  2. (countable) An instance of this technique being used; an image made using this technique.
    • Confirmation of the condition is made through radiographs, bone scans, or magnetic resonance imagings (MRI’s).1995, Marcia K. Anderson, Susan J. Hall, “Legg-Calvé-Perthes Disease”, in Sports Injury Management, Media, Pa.: Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, section III (Injuries to the Lower Extremity), chapter 9...
    Synonyms:
    MRI

Verb

MRI (third-person singular simple present MRIs, present participle MRIing, simple past and past participle MRIed)

  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

Synonyms of MRI

Forms of MRI

Noun
pluralMRIs
Verb
third-person singular presentMRIs
present participleMRIing
past participleMRIed
pastMRIed

Words formed from MRI

Questions about MRI

What does MRI mean?
MRI means to take an MRI scan of.
What is MRI the initialism of?
MRI is the initialism of magnetic resonance imaging.
What part of speech is MRI?
MRI is a verb.
What is the past tense of MRI?
The past tense of MRI is MRIed.

Words near MRI in the dictionary

  1. mRGC
  2. mRGCs
  3. MRGN
  4. MRHD
  5. MRHDs
  6. MRI
  7. MRIA
  8. mridamgam
  9. mridang
  10. mridanga
  11. mridangam

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Adapted from Wiktionary: MRI (page history and authors); 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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