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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Example sentences from the Web for DNR
Told by a Ukrainian that the DNR were in Novotroitske, a guardsman said, “We know.”
DNR leaders admitted that foreign aid workers in the Donetsk region had good reasons to be concerned about their safety.
We urge DNR to release abducted people kept at the seized building of the Donetsk regional administration right now.
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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)
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