biopsy

English

Etymology

From French biopsie, from bi- +‎ -opsy.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪɑpsi/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

biopsy (plural biopsies)

1. The removal and examination of a sample of tissue, cells, or bodily fluid from a living body for diagnostic purposes.

   We will need to perform a biopsy to determine whether the tumour is malignant or benign.

   • 2021, Dr Philippa Kaye, Doctors Get Cancer Too, Vie Books, page 22:

     All the while he was talking, he took lots of biopsies, small samples of tissue to be examined by pathologists using a microscope.

Derived terms

• cone biopsy
• cryobiopsy
• microbiopsy
• needle aspiration biopsy
• neurobiopsy
• postbiopsy
• prebiopsy
• rebiopsy

 

Translations

removal and examination of a sample of tissue for diagnostic purposes

• Catalan: biòpsia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 活組織檢查／活组织检查 (huózǔzhī jiǎnchá), 活檢／活检 (huójiǎn), 切片檢查／切片检查 (zh) (qiēpiàn jiǎnchá)

• Czech: biopsie (cs) f
• Danish: biopsi c
• Finnish: biopsia (fi)
• French: biopsie (fr)
• Galician: biopsia f
• German: Biopsie (de) f
• Hungarian: biopszia (hu), szövettani mintavétel
• Icelandic: vefsýnitaka f
• Irish: bithóipse f
• Italian: biopsia (it) f
• Polish: biopsja (pl) f
• Portuguese: biopsia (pt) f, biópsia (pt) f
• Russian: биопси́я (ru) f (biopsíja)
• Slovak: biopsia (sk) f
• Spanish: biopsia (es) f
• Swedish: vävnadsprovtagning c, biopsi (sv) c, vävnadsprov (sv) n
• Tagalog: surimbuhay
• Turkish: biyopsi (tr)

Verb

biopsy (third-person singular simple present biopsies, present participle biopsying, simple past and past participle biopsied)

1. To take a sample (a biopsy) for pathological examination.

   They biopsied the lump but it turned out to be non-cancerous.

Derived terms

• unbiopsied

 

Related terms

• biopsic, bioptic

Translations

to take a sample for pathological examination

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 活組織檢查／活组织检查 (huózǔzhī jiǎnchá), 活檢／活检 (huójiǎn), 切片檢查／切片检查 (zh) (qiēpiàn jiǎnchá)

• Finnish: tehdä biopsia, ottaa koepala
• Galician: biopsiar
• German: biopsieren (de)
• Hungarian: biopsziát végez, szövetmintát vesz
• Icelandic: taka vefsýni
• Maori: unuhanga pota
• Spanish: biopsiar

See also

• biopsy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• osbipy