Thread: Can anyone make sense of this MRI report for me?
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Old 07-23-2012, 03:30 AM
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Medical Definition: hypointense

Showing signal intensity lower than that considered average or reference to a tissue.
http://wikbio.com/en/dictionary/defi...of/hypointense
I think (subject to correction by others) it means you've got degenerative disc disease like the rest of us.

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