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  • verb Present participle of biopsy.

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Examples

  • We found no signs of mutation after biopsying the areas.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • This is like biopsying your brain to see how your liver is doing.

    On brain biopsies and teacher assessments doyle 2009

  • We found no signs of mutation after biopsying the areas.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • We found no signs of mutation after biopsying the areas.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • Translation: screening is finding lots of tumors that doctors wind up biopsying and treating, perhaps unnecessarily.

    It May Not Save Your Life 2009

  • One might wonder how you go about biopsying something on MRI that doesn't actually show up on MRI; well, I did, at any rate.

    Archive 2008-07-01 1 Dinosaur 2008

  • One might wonder how you go about biopsying something on MRI that doesn't actually show up on MRI; well, I did, at any rate.

    A Tale of Two Titties* 1 Dinosaur 2008

  • I never realized it before, but that means biopsying for breast cancer is easier.

    'It's Almost Too Good for Us to Believe' 2007

  • Another area of the body in which mitochondria are active is in the muscles, but biopsying muscle tissue is also invasive, she added.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2010

  • That means "you end up biopsying a lot of prostates that did not need any biopsy," said Dr.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2010

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