biopsy

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From French biopsie, from bi- +‎ -opsy.

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biopsy (plural biopsies)

  1. The removal and examination of a sample of tissue, cells, or bodily fluid from a living body for diagnostic purposes.
    We will need to perform a biopsy to determine whether the tumour is malignant or benign.
    • 2021, Dr Philippa Kaye, Doctors Get Cancer Too, Vie Books, page 22:
      All the while he was talking, he took lots of biopsies, small samples of tissue to be examined by pathologists using a microscope.

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biopsy (third-person singular simple present biopsies, present participle biopsying, simple past and past participle biopsied)

  1. To take a sample (a biopsy) for pathological examination.
    They biopsied the lump but it turned out to be non-cancerous.

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