MRI
noun
: magnetic resonance imaging
also
: the procedure in which magnetic resonance imaging is used
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According to the San Francisco Chronicle's Sam Gordon, Curry is dealing with a right quad contusion and will undergo an MRI to determine the severity of the injury.
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Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2025
And it’s been replaced by the grim reality that this team is one bad-looking MRI away from downright irrelevance.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 27 Nov. 2025
The weak strength of Earth’s magnetic field (at least compared to that of an MRI machine) means that protons wobbling under its influence do so at audio frequencies.
—David Schneider, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2025
To carry out the study, researchers at the University of Cambridge looked at data from 3,802 people ranging from newborns to 90 years old who had undergone MRI diffusion scans.
—New Atlas, 25 Nov. 2025
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Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2025
And it’s been replaced by the grim reality that this team is one bad-looking MRI away from downright irrelevance.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 27 Nov. 2025
The weak strength of Earth’s magnetic field (at least compared to that of an MRI machine) means that protons wobbling under its influence do so at audio frequencies.
—David Schneider, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2025
To carry out the study, researchers at the University of Cambridge looked at data from 3,802 people ranging from newborns to 90 years old who had undergone MRI diffusion scans.
—New Atlas, 25 Nov. 2025
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MRI
noun
: magnetic resonance imaging
also
: a procedure in which magnetic resonance imaging is used
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