DNR

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abbreviation

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).

do not return.Also D.N.R.

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Words nearby DNR

DNF, Dnieper, Dniester, D-notice, DNP, DNR, DNS, do, DOA, doab, doable

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How to use DNR in a sentence

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
We urge DNR to release abducted people kept at the seized building of the Donetsk regional administration right now.
The 26-Year-Old Woman Searching for Ukraine’s Disappeared|Anna Nemtsova|June 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST

British Dictionary definitions for DNR

DNR

abbreviation for

do not resuscitate

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Medical definitions for DNR

DNR

abbr.

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