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MRI
noun
: magnetic resonance imaging
also
: the procedure in which magnetic resonance imaging is used
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At 19, an MRI revealed the truth: That lump was actually a golf-ball sized tumor on her median nerve.
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Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
Springbok Analytics, a device company using MRI images to assess muscle health, raised a $5 million Series A, CEO Scott Magargee tells Axios exclusively.
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Erin Brodwin, Axios, 24 Jan. 2025
Between 2016 and 2018, the project collected data using food questionnaires and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scans.
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Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
In a famous study published in 2000, a group of 16 London cabbies underwent MRI brain scans, which showed that compared to people with other jobs, the cabbies had changes in their hippocampus: the brain region dedicated to memory and navigation.
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Christopher M. Worsham, TIME, 14 Jan. 2025
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First Known Use
1982, in the meaning defined above
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“MRI.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/MRI. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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MRI
noun
: magnetic resonance imaging
also
: a procedure in which magnetic resonance imaging is used
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