biopsy

Meaning of biopsy

noun
  1. an examination of tissue removed from a living body to discover the presence, cause, or extent of a disease.
    a bone marrow biopsy
    cirrhosis was confirmed by biopsy
verb
  1. conduct a biopsy on (tissue removed from a living body).
    the lesions may be malignant and should be biopsied

late 19th century: coined in French from Greek bios ‘life’ + opsis ‘sight’, on the pattern of necropsy .

Information about biopsy

  • The plural form of biopsy is: biopsies.
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Hyphenation of biopsy

biopsy

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • biopsy is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Translation of biopsy

Words that rhyme with biopsy

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