Biopsy
noun
A medical test where a small amount of tissue is taken from the body to examine it more closely.
The doctor decided to perform a biopsy to check for signs of cancer.
Often appears as...
- needle biopsy
- skin biopsy
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noun
A medical test where a small amount of tissue is taken from the body to examine it more closely.
The doctor decided to perform a biopsy to check for signs of cancer.
Often appears as...
- needle biopsy
- skin biopsy
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Medical Procedure
A biopsy is a specific medical procedure, often indicating serious diagnostic testing.
After her mammogram, the doctor recommended a biopsy to analyze the tissue.
Pro Tip 2/3Diagnostic Context
Used in contexts where a disease is being diagnosed, commonly cancer.
The biopsy results can take a week to come back from the lab.
Pro Tip 3/3Technical Term
Biopsy is a technical term and may not be understood by people outside medical fields.
The medical seminar included a detailed discussion on the types of biopsies.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Procedure
A biopsy is a specific medical procedure, often indicating serious diagnostic testing.
After her mammogram, the doctor recommended a biopsy to analyze the tissue.
Pro Tip 2/3Diagnostic Context
Used in contexts where a disease is being diagnosed, commonly cancer.
The biopsy results can take a week to come back from the lab.
Pro Tip 3/3Technical Term
Biopsy is a technical term and may not be understood by people outside medical fields.
The medical seminar included a detailed discussion on the types of biopsies.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Procedure
A biopsy is a specific medical procedure, often indicating serious diagnostic testing.
After her mammogram, the doctor recommended a biopsy to analyze the tissue.
Pro Tip 2/3Diagnostic Context
Used in contexts where a disease is being diagnosed, commonly cancer.
The biopsy results can take a week to come back from the lab.
Pro Tip 3/3Technical Term
Biopsy is a technical term and may not be understood by people outside medical fields.
The medical seminar included a detailed discussion on the types of biopsies.
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in order to help people with Parkinson's or epilepsy or other conditions that affect over a billion people around the world. Now, something interesting has been happening. It turns out that throughout biomedicine, there are other problems that expansion might help with. This is an actual biopsy from a human breast cancer patient.
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area of breast cancer turn a patient as chemotherapy or not traditional wisdom is young women with large fast growing tumors or high risk for recurrence well a company called genomic health took advantage of a fact that when you take a biopsy of a tumor those slides kind of live forever so they took thousands of
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Isha Datar: How we could...
They're our ticket to a new food system. Here's how it works. Rather than raise a whole chicken with beaks, feathers, sentience, we grow the meat directly from muscle cells. We take a small biopsy from a living animal, and then extract the cells of interest. They're probably muscle cells,
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report was that she'd had this her whole life and she basically had a huge crater taken out of her lower jaw with the bone completely rearranged with a horrible infection in her mouth dog worried the mask could be life threatening dr. Mike schedules a biopsy right away girl
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How computers learn to...
bicycles in a self-driving vehicle, can be used to find cancer cells in a tissue biopsy. And there are researchers around the globe already using this technology for advances in things like medicine, robotics. This morning, I read a paper
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We've created a technology that we call nano-DLD that is capable of precisely automated exosome isolation to aid rapid cancer diagnostics. Exosomes are the newest early-warning weapon, if you will, to emerge on the liquid biopsy front.
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The Future of Early...
So finally, they decided to do a biopsy, and two weeks later, the results of the biopsy came back. It was stage 3 lung cancer. Her lifestyle was almost free of risk. She never smoked a cigarette, she never drank alcohol,
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from an animal, through a simple biopsy. The animal could be a cow, lamb, or even something more exotic. This process does no harm, and Daisy the cow can live a happy life. We then isolate the skin cells
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When blood tests suggest the possibility of celiac, the diagnosis is confirmed with a biopsy. The most effective treatment is a gluten-free diet, which helps heal intestinal damage and improve symptoms.
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The Best Dogs of BBC...
he took a surgical biopsy to finally detect the cancer Maureen had it removed and the change in Max's behavior was instant the day I was picked up from the hospital he was his old hyper self again
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A new way to study the...
in order to help people with Parkinson's or epilepsy or other conditions that affect over a billion people around the world. Now, something interesting has been happening. It turns out that throughout biomedicine, there are other problems that expansion might help with. This is an actual biopsy from a human breast cancer patient.
Video examples
How to make discoveries...
area of breast cancer turn a patient as chemotherapy or not traditional wisdom is young women with large fast growing tumors or high risk for recurrence well a company called genomic health took advantage of a fact that when you take a biopsy of a tumor those slides kind of live forever so they took thousands of
Video examples
Isha Datar: How we could...
They're our ticket to a new food system. Here's how it works. Rather than raise a whole chicken with beaks, feathers, sentience, we grow the meat directly from muscle cells. We take a small biopsy from a living animal, and then extract the cells of interest. They're probably muscle cells,
Video examples
Doggie Dentistry PIPE...
report was that she'd had this her whole life and she basically had a huge crater taken out of her lower jaw with the bone completely rearranged with a horrible infection in her mouth dog worried the mask could be life threatening dr. Mike schedules a biopsy right away girl
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How computers learn to...
bicycles in a self-driving vehicle, can be used to find cancer cells in a tissue biopsy. And there are researchers around the globe already using this technology for advances in things like medicine, robotics. This morning, I read a paper
Video examples
New nanotech to detect...
We've created a technology that we call nano-DLD that is capable of precisely automated exosome isolation to aid rapid cancer diagnostics. Exosomes are the newest early-warning weapon, if you will, to emerge on the liquid biopsy front.
Video examples
The Future of Early...
So finally, they decided to do a biopsy, and two weeks later, the results of the biopsy came back. It was stage 3 lung cancer. Her lifestyle was almost free of risk. She never smoked a cigarette, she never drank alcohol,
Video examples
Leather and meat without...
from an animal, through a simple biopsy. The animal could be a cow, lamb, or even something more exotic. This process does no harm, and Daisy the cow can live a happy life. We then isolate the skin cells
Video examples
What’s the big deal with...
When blood tests suggest the possibility of celiac, the diagnosis is confirmed with a biopsy. The most effective treatment is a gluten-free diet, which helps heal intestinal damage and improve symptoms.
Video examples
The Best Dogs of BBC...
he took a surgical biopsy to finally detect the cancer Maureen had it removed and the change in Max's behavior was instant the day I was picked up from the hospital he was his old hyper self again
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Margaret Cuomo
American Celebrity
An abnormality on a mammogram can turn a woman's life upside down, even if no cancer is ultimately found. At the very least, she will have to undergo more tests, usually with a biopsy as a first step. The procedure takes its toll in time and money and even more so in the stress it introduces into a woman's life.
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Susannah Cahalan
American Journalist
My own medical history during my hospital stay was readily available to me through literally thousands of pages of medical records that outlined everything from my 'bowel releasing' schedule to the minute details of my brain biopsy procedure.
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Jameela Jamil
English Celebrity
With the arrogance of youth, I thought, 'I don't drink, don't smoke, I don't do drugs, so why would I get cancer?' The week I spent waiting for the result of the biopsy to see if it was malignant felt like the longest of my life.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
British Composer
The moment the doctor said he wanted to do a biopsy, in my heart I thought I'd probably got it. But I also know a lot of people who have also had prostate cancer, so I had a reasonably good idea what to expect.
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Will Self
English Author
A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.
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Lorrie Moore
American Writer
A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.
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George Saunders
American Writer
You know, you can talk about race, you can talk about sex, you can talk about your biopsy. But when you get into class, people kind of clench up.
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Ken Kercheval
American Actor
My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn't need to biopsy it.
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Don Baylor
American Coach
My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.
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Stuart Scott
American Journalist
That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.
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Margaret Cuomo
American Celebrity
An abnormality on a mammogram can turn a woman's life upside down, even if no cancer is ultimately found. At the very least, she will have to undergo more tests, usually with a biopsy as a first step. The procedure takes its toll in time and money and even more so in the stress it introduces into a woman's life.
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Susannah Cahalan
American Journalist
My own medical history during my hospital stay was readily available to me through literally thousands of pages of medical records that outlined everything from my 'bowel releasing' schedule to the minute details of my brain biopsy procedure.
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Jameela Jamil
English Celebrity
With the arrogance of youth, I thought, 'I don't drink, don't smoke, I don't do drugs, so why would I get cancer?' The week I spent waiting for the result of the biopsy to see if it was malignant felt like the longest of my life.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
British Composer
The moment the doctor said he wanted to do a biopsy, in my heart I thought I'd probably got it. But I also know a lot of people who have also had prostate cancer, so I had a reasonably good idea what to expect.
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Will Self
English Author
A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.
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Lorrie Moore
American Writer
A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.
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George Saunders
American Writer
You know, you can talk about race, you can talk about sex, you can talk about your biopsy. But when you get into class, people kind of clench up.
Quote examples
Ken Kercheval
American Actor
My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn't need to biopsy it.
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Don Baylor
American Coach
My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.
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Stuart Scott
American Journalist
That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.
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