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biopsy
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE antral ▪ Invitro gastric antral biopsies were stimulated by vortex mixing and eicosanoid measurements determined by radioimmunoassay. ▪ Another of the antral biopsy specimens was Gram stained and cultured. ▪ Endoscopic ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A biopsy is a medical test commonly performed by a surgeon , interventional radiologist , or an interventional cardiologist involving extraction of sample cells or tissues for examination to determine the presence or extent of a disease. The tissue is generally ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1895, from French biopsie , coined by French dermatologist Ernest Besnier (1831-1909) from Greek bi- comb. form of bios "life" (see bio- ) + opsis "a sight" (see eye (n.)). As a verb, from 1964.
Usage examples of biopsy.
Local insurance associations and loan companies kept Benedict Filesthe pen a man had used to sign his contract, his snubbed-out cigarette butt, a plastex hanky with which he had mopped his brow, an object left in security, the remains of a biopsy or blood testso that Benedick could use his power against those who renege on these companies and flee, on those who break their laws.
She had a chorion biopsy, and a fetoscopy, and an alpha-fetoprotein test, and amniocentesis.
For example, one study of women undergoing gynecologic surgery indicated that the age of the patient had great diagnostic importance, and that notation of last menstrual period, biopsy of smear, pre-operative hemoglobin, and urine-sediment study were all much less important to making a diagnosis.
On Halloween night, 1989--eighteen months after the discovery of the nonmalignant fibroid--Anna found a lump near the scar tissue that had formed following the needle biopsy.
Massive bruises adorned his arms, gravestones of venipunctures, and the entirety of his right hip, where the biopsy had been performed, was an angry gathering of blue-black blood.
He sat in the waiting room of the hospital and while they were doing the biopsy on Norma he thought about time, the one thing that could not be stopped.
The biopsy had already been sent for frozen section and they were closing.
He paced so furiously, the biopsy surgeon had to ask him to sit or leave the room.
Yet his attitude about a biopsy made her appreciate the fact that surgeons viewed surgery in a fundamentally different way than patients did.
There was a remote but real possibility that the biopsy might prove to be positive for cancer.
Now that she was having a biopsy, she was even more thankful for her choice.
I only signed a consent for a biopsy and not anything more extensive like a hysterectomy.
Carpenter would have said if she told him that during her biopsy his blue eyes had reminded her of the man who had tried to kill her.
Of course the best thing about the phone conversation was learning that the cervical biopsy was normal.
Marissa had been told that her fallopian tube biopsy had been forwarded there.