functional magnetic resonance imaging

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   a form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain

   SynonymsfMRI

   Broadermagnetic resonance imaging

   Narrowerblood-oxygenation level dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging

Questions about functional magnetic resonance imaging

What does functional magnetic resonance imaging mean?

functional magnetic resonance imaging means "a form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain".

What is another word for functional magnetic resonance imaging?

Close synonyms include fMRI. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is functional magnetic resonance imaging a common word?

functional magnetic resonance imaging is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.