MRI
noun
: magnetic resonance imaging
also
: the procedure in which magnetic resonance imaging is used
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Crawford also missed all of 2025 due to injury and is still awaiting the results of his MRI from earlier this week.
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Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 19 Apr. 2026
Once in a while, black flats compress the space, framing a single character’s face, bathed in a bleaching white light, as if their vulnerabilities were being scanned by an MRI.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2026
The Heat said Thursday no MRI was required on Adebayo, with X-rays coming back negative on Tuesday night at Spectrum Center.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2026
Adrienne Jones-McAllister, 61, is suing Nassau Open MRI after her husband, Keith McAllister, 61, tragically died following injuries sustained by the MRI machine, according to court documents obtained by PEOPLE.
—Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026
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Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 19 Apr. 2026
Once in a while, black flats compress the space, framing a single character’s face, bathed in a bleaching white light, as if their vulnerabilities were being scanned by an MRI.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2026
The Heat said Thursday no MRI was required on Adebayo, with X-rays coming back negative on Tuesday night at Spectrum Center.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2026
Adrienne Jones-McAllister, 61, is suing Nassau Open MRI after her husband, Keith McAllister, 61, tragically died following injuries sustained by the MRI machine, according to court documents obtained by PEOPLE.
—Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026
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MRI
noun
: magnetic resonance imaging
also
: a procedure in which magnetic resonance imaging is used
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