biopsy

English

From French biopsie, from Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “eye”).

biopsy (plural biopsies)

The removal and examination of a sample of tissue, cells, or bodily fluid from a living body for diagnostic purposes.
- 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.
We will need to perform a biopsy to determine whether the tumour is malignant or benign.

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 n
Tagalog: surimbuhay
Turkish: biyopsi (tr)

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

To take a sample (a biopsy) for pathological examination.
They biopsied the lump but it turned out to be non-cancerous.

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