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biopsy|ˈbaɪɒpsɪ, baɪˈɒpsɪ|
[ad. F. biopsie (Besnier), f. Gr. βίος life + ὄψις sight. After necropsy.]
Examination of tissue, etc., removed from the living body; also, the removal of such tissue.
1895E. Besnier in J. J. Pringle Pict. Atlas Skin Dis. 88 Clinical teaching will now find in a ‘biopsy’ a valuable means of confirming or invalidating a dubious diagnosis. 1902Brit. Jrnl. Dermatol. XIV. 56 A certain diagnosis was probably impossible without a biopsy. 1910Practitioner Apr. 453 More definite evidence of the existence of gastro⁓staxis, apart from gastric ulcer, is obtained from biopsies and necropsies. 1955Brit. Med. Jrnl. 31 Dec. 1590/1 (title) Serial biopsy in ulcerative colitis. 1966New Statesman 11 Mar. 328/1 This is called a biopsy, wherein a cone of the infected cervical cell-tissue is surgically removed. |