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biopsy

[bahy-op-see] / ˈbaɪ ɒp si /


NOUN
operation
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Scientists biopsy and genetically sequence a patient’s tumor cells.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Despite a battery of tests, including a contrast CT scan and bone marrow biopsy, experts could not determine what was making Jackie critically ill.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

With additional research, she hopes extracellular vesicles might one day function as a type of liquid biopsy.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

A biopsy revealed cancer, and then after a MRI scan she was told she had stage four metastatic breast cancer.

From BBC Jun. 5, 2026

The biopsy But the doctor had made it clear that the ugly black hunk of skin was something bad.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Those patients are more likely to be able to pay not only for the initial test, but also for the specialists, repeat imaging, and biopsies that may follow.

From Slate Sep. 9, 2026

Veterinarians carried out X-rays, ultrasounds and biopsies, but the underlying cause remained difficult to determine.

From Science Daily Sep. 8, 2026

The government said the clinic would offer women access to investigations including ultrasound scans and endometrial biopsies during the same visit, which could not be provided at a standard GP appointment.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

Those results suggest that blood-based DNA analysis could eventually reduce reliance on invasive liver biopsies for some patients.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

In this particular study—the largest ever done on the relationship between the two cervical cancers—Jones and TeLinde found that 62 percent of women with invasive cancer who’d had earlier biopsies first had carcinoma in situ.

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

Before long, they were dating, and a couple weeks into their relationship, Amy asked about the scar on Staley’s neck, the spot that twice had been biopsied leading to his diagnosis.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2023

I biopsied it and checked it under the microscope.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

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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