biopsy
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈbaɪɒpsi/
- Specialized
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biopsia
- Will send patient for biopsy to confirm.
- incisional biopsy
- excisional biopsy
- fine-needle aspiration biopsy
All right, Well, you know, maybe you got a kidney infection and then they wanted to do a biopsy.
- All right, Well, you know, maybe you got a kidney infection and then they wanted to do a biopsy.
- And they, when they do a diagnosis with MRI, it's not, it's not certain until they, they do a biopsy.
- So he partnered with a group within Lumina, which is the major sequencing company out there, and developed what's called the liquid biopsy.
- This guy, his biopsy should be back any day now.
- And with that we can get the results of of the biopsy.
- And, and then they did some blood work and, and some pathology results on that biopsy.
- So turned up for what I thought was like a biopsy.
- I mean, small heart biopsy make IPSL and because of the memory I can get more cardiac cell, right?
Examples
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Recently, Jenny went for a biopsy and was told she has a precancerous condition.
Fiction book (1996) -
She had a biopsy on Friday and we wouldn't get the results until Monday.
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We should do a biopsy to make sure.
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How long would the biopsy take?
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We got the biopsy results.
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They're going to do the biopsy tomorrow morning.
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The doctor took a biopsy, and it was malignant.
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Well, we went through your test results and your biopsy came back showing signs of large cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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Diagnosis of major aphthae may require a biopsy to rule out malignancy and opportunistic infections.
Academic text (2000) -
The doctor explained that a biopsy would help determine the cause of the abnormal tissue.
Synonyms
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3.5
A medical check that shows what illness or problem a person has
Compounds
- Specialized
1
3.5
A medical procedure that uses a hollow needle to take a small piece of body tissue for testing
- Specialized
A medical test in early pregnancy that takes a small tissue sample from the placenta to check the baby's genes
How Invasive
Surface Forms
Morphology
biopsy = bio + opsy
The form contains the classical element bio- and the bound element -opsy, but the modern medical meaning is not straightforwardly recoverable from those parts.
Etymology
Biopsy comes from Greek parts bio- ('life') and -opsy ('to look' or 'sight'), and the bio- part is the same root you see in biology. So a biopsy is literally a 'look at living tissue' to find disease.