DNR

Medicine/Medical. do not resuscitate (used in hospitals and other health-care facilities to indicate to the staff the decision of a patient's doctors and family, or of the patient by a living will, to avoid extraordinary means of prolonging life).

Also D.N.R. do not return.

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for dnr

Told by a Ukrainian that the DNR were in Novotroitske, a guardsman said, “We know.”
Pro-Russian Rebels Brag Kiev Is Next|Ted Phillips|September 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
DNR leaders admitted that foreign aid workers in the Donetsk region had good reasons to be concerned about their safety.
From Embattled Donetsk, a Plea for Body Bags|Anna Nemtsova|August 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST

British Dictionary definitions for dnr

DNR

abbreviation for

do not resuscitate

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Medicine definitions for dnr

DNR

abbr.

do not resuscitate (a physician's order to refrain from initiating a code blue)