Definition of "DNR"

DNR

noun
uncountable
1. Initialism of digital noise reduction.
2. Initialism of do not rent (a blacklist of individuals who are forbidden from renting a property).
phrase
1. (medicine) Initialism of do not resuscitate, a legal document by which a patient may direct which medical procedures they do and do not wish to undergo in the case that they are incapacitated.
  Quotations
  After reviewing the patient’s case, the ethics consultants advised us to honor the patient’s do not resuscitate (DNR) tattoo.
  2017 November 30, Gregory E. Holt, Bianca Sarmento, Daniel Kett, Kenneth W. Goodman, “An Unconscious Patient with a DNR Tattoo”, in New England Journal of Medicine‎, volume 377, number 22, pages 2192–2193
  Caplan noted that while there are no legal penalties for ignoring such a tattoo, there may be legal problems if the doctors let a patient die without having their official DNR paperwork.
  2020, Brian Christian, “Uncertainty”, in The Alignment Problem, New York: W.W. Norton & Company
proper noun
1. Initialism of Department of Natural Resources.