Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The removal and examination of a sample of tissue from a living body for diagnostic purposes.
- n. A sample so obtained.
- v. To remove (tissue) from a living body for diagnostic purposes.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Examination, for diagnostic purposes, of a piece of tissue severed from the living body.
Wiktionary
- n. The removal and examination of a sample of tissue from a living body for diagnostic purposes.
- v. To take a sample (a biopsy) for pathological examination.
WordNet 3.0
- n. examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to determine the existence or cause of a disease
Etymologies
- From French biopsie. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In such a case a biopsy is almost routinely recommended.”
“A liver biopsy is a procedure in which small pieces of liver tissue are extracted and sent to a laboratory for evaluation.”
“Usually the biopsy is performed by inserting a needle through the skin into the liver; this can sometimes result in bleeding from the liver into the abdomen.”
“Patients need to understand that the cone biopsy is nearly always diagnostic, and hopefully therapeutic.”
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“The biopsy from the endocervical canal [the passage leading from the cervical canal into the body of the uterus] was normal.”
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“We therefore decided to use a lymph node biopsy from a patient with generalised lymphadenopathy.”
“Recently, investigators found SV40 DNA in biopsy specimens obtained from patients with cancers such as mesothelioma (lung), osteosarcoma (bone) and non-Hodgkins lymphoma (lymph nodes).”
“It may make perfect sense for some person in Washington that a biopsy is not required for certain kind of positive cancer test results.”
“It is a piece of lymph node tissue that was taken for a biopsy from a woman in Kinshasa in 1960 and preserved in a bed of paraffin wax.”
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“And he says, "You're not" and you imagine the word biopsy floating between the two of you, in bubble letters.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘biopsy’.
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bio-
of or relating to life
biology, biohazard, biome, biosphere, biotic, biography, biologist, biographer, biochemistry, biogenesis, autobiography, biostatic and 1 more...
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-opsy
denoting an examination
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Greek Spelling Bee List
need to know these words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lethargy, biopsy, enthusiasm, odyssey, synonym, calypso, character, eclectic, chronology, cosmetic, cynical, hypothesis and 128 more...
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MY WORDS
egoist, entomologists, egotist, altruist, introvert, extrovert, ambivert, misanthrope, misogynist, misogamist, ascetic, Altruism and 193 more...
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Alphaliterals
Words having the letters in alphabetical order. Only words of six or more letters are listed here.
For reverse alphabetical order see Retroliterals. For words and phrases with the vowels in a...abbess, abbott, abhors, accent, accept, access, accost, adders, adeems, aegilops, afflux, agloos and 58 more...
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catatonia, dispatch, resuscitate, alleged, douse, expressly, famished, libel, misgiving, oaf, repast, recede and 52 more...
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words with letters in alphabetical order
abbey, abbot, abort, accent, accept, access, accost, adept, adopt, aegis, affix, afoot and 41 more...
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