How to Use MRI in a Sentence

MRI

noun
  • According to the study, MRI scans showed a lesion on the left side of his brain.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2024
  • But when Shelby’s doctors looked at her MRI scans in the fall of 2022, that all fell apart.
    Brittany Trang, STAT, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Dimick was then sent to a doctor, who did blood work and took an MRI.
    Nicky Wolcott, Charlotte Observer, 3 July 2024
  • There was nothing an MRI showed after his last start that was worse, that caused the surgery.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Rodgers was helped off the field by staff members and underwent an MRI.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The initial read on the injury is that Butler sprained his knee, but the MRI will reveal the true severity of the injury.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Today, the cost is akin to that of routine medical tests, such as colonoscopies and MRI scans.
    Mark Johnson, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
  • There was a medical machine [used] when [Large] goes into the MRI.
    Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 July 2024
  • On their second visit to the lab, subjects were put in an MRI scanner and were shown videos of themselves and others singing karaoke.
    Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Brooks felt dizzy and underwent an MRI, which revealed the tumor that day, Kelly said.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The 16-year-old was forced to undergo the emergency surgery last week after an MRI revealed a golf ball-sized aneurysm had formed off of his heart.
    Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • Munn’s high score led to an MRI, followed by an ultrasound, and then a biopsy that revealed cancer.
    Kylie Gilbert, Glamour, 22 Mar. 2024
  • In 2016, a new MRI technique revealed that Venter had a form of prostate cancer that was close to metastasizing.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
  • However, those who have a high risk for breast cancer should request a screening breast MRI from their physician.
    Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Did lab monkeys play a role in the development of the steroids, or the MRI contrast, or the blood thinner, or any number of other drugs or tests that I’d be given over the course of my stay?
    Erika Fry, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The computer can direct the robotic placement of the tube as it is fed images of the brain taken before the procedure using MRI.
    Craig W. Stevens, The Conversation, 5 Aug. 2020
  • There’s also a chance an MRI won’t be necessary for Mukuamu based on how his muscle responds.
    Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
  • These scents seem to have stimulated their brains and their measures of verbal memory seem to have increased and changes were even seen on an MRI scan.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Two days after the MRI, a different neurologist told them that even with bad swelling, there can sometimes be a good outcome.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 7 June 2024
  • Doctors decided to conduct an MRI scan of her brain and spotted a growing lesion.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • My doctor ordered a follow-up MRI for six months later, which located a small mass exactly where the pain had been.
    Lauren Gray, SELF, 1 Apr. 2024
  • After the cyberattack, Switzer didn't hear back about scheduling the MRI and took it upon himself to call his doctor.
    Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 17 May 2024
  • Could indicate cancer, doctor warns Celebrities are getting $2,000 MRI scans to learn about their health.
    South Florida Sun Sentinel, Sun Sentinel, 17 July 2024
  • The device features rigid bones modeled on MRI scans of human hands and elastic tendons that can be connected to servos to curl the fingers in toward the palm.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Fleming even spent more than an hour in an MRI machine, singing and imagining the act of singing, to analyze which parts of the brain are activated by music.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The results of that test prompted her to get an MRI, which uncovered stage one aggressive luminal B breast cancer in both breasts.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2024
  • When there are oxygen molecules around, their magnetic fields make these protons spiral up faster, so the MRI machine can map out the oxygen in your body.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 May 2024
  • In theory, researchers could put a cat inside an MRI machine or stick probes into its larynx.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • With that decision, the clot, which was being monitored every 12 hours via MRI, was progressing.
    Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
  • It was not considered serious enough to require an MRI or other imaging.
    Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 9 July 2024

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