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
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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