DNR


abbreviation
  1. Medicine/Medical.do not resuscitate: (used in hospitals and other healthcare facilities to indicate to the staff the decision of a patient's doctors and family, or of the patient, to avoid extraordinary means of prolonging life).

  2. do not return.: Also D.N.R.

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DNR

abbreviation for
  1. do not resuscitate

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