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biopsy

[bahy-op-see] / ˈbaɪ ɒp si /


NOUN
operation
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STRONG
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The mum-of-two, from Merthyr Tydfil, first noticed a "small pea-sized" lump in her breast in 2018, but, after an ultrasound, she was told it was likely glandular tissue and no biopsy was carried out.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

"Often, the lesion can be accessed from the outside or inside, for instance, via image-guided biopsy or endoscopy, but sometimes this is not possible," Venuta said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

The team captured bats, collected small biopsy samples and released the animals.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

Those mutation targets are encoded into mRNA and manufactured into a vaccine—a process that takes about six weeks from the date of the biopsy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

A doctor makes the diagnosis by doing a test called a biopsy.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Despite scans and biopsies, experts could not figure out why she was ill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

A false positive can send someone into scans and biopsies they never needed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

If a patient gets a positive test, they are instructed to undergo a cancer work-up, whether that’s imaging or biopsies.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

His histology lab receives cancer service biopsies from across the hospital for diagnosis.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

TeLinde set out to minimize what he called “unjustifiable hysterectomies” by documenting what wasn’t cervical cancer and by urging surgeons to verify smear results with biopsies before operating.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

Consultant plastic surgeon Neil Wickham checked her face, confirmed a biopsied lump on her arm was benign, and referred her to ENT for a separate lump in her neck.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

In diagnostic testing, a pathologist examines biopsied tissues under a microscope to identify cellular abnormalities that may hint at disease.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2024

So McGrane and colleagues biopsied the tongue of a 6-year-old male cat that had been euthanized for health reasons unrelated to the study.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 25, 2023

The “Strong Looks Better Naked” author opened up about her history with skin-cancer scares in 2016, telling then-users of her official app that she frequently has moles checked and often has to have them biopsied.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2023

In 1951, the same year Jones biopsied Henrietta’s tumor, researchers from Columbia University reported that the two types of cancer were easily and often confused.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

But the laborious strategy deployed in this study — biopsying the tumor, sequencing it and then dividing the patients into mutation-guided treatments — provided few novel therapeutic inroads.

From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2018

The movement today is toward biopsying 5-day embryos using microarray comparative genomic hybridization, which examines all 23 chromosome pairs and provides a more detailed picture of the entire length of the chromosomes.

From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2014


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