Definition of Biopsies

1. Noun. (plural of biopsy) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of biopsy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Biopsies

1. biopsy [v] - See also: biopsy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Biopsies

bioprocessing
bioprocessor
bioprocessors
bioproduct
bioproducts
bioprogram
bioprograms
bioprospecting
bioprospector
bioprospectors
bioprostheses
bioprosthesis
bioprotein
biopsic
biopsied
biopsies (current term)
biopsy
biopsy needle
biopsychological
biopsychologist
biopsychologists
biopsychology
biopsychosocial
biopsychosocial model
biopsying
biopterin
bioptic
bioptome
biopunk
biopunks

Literary usage of Biopsies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Quality Determinants Of Mammography: Clinical Practice Guideline by Lawrence W. Bassett, R. Edward Hendrick (2004)
"(C) Excessive biopsies are a possible adverse consequence of mammography. ... Excessive biopsies RECOMMENDATION: Referring health care providers should be ..."

2. Practical Handbook of the Pathology of the Skin: An Introduction to the by John MacLeod Hendrie MacLeod (1903)
"biopsies. BY a biopsy is meant the excision of a piece of tissue from the living ... By means of biopsies, however, and the immediate fixation of the tissue ..."

3. Ending the War Metaphor: The Changing Agenda for Unraveling the Host-Microbe by Forum on Microbial Threats, Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (2006)
"... population adhering to biopsies obtained from six individuals from the same three sites of the large bowel and the ileum. ..."

4. Costs And Effectiveness Of Prostate Cancer Screening In Elderly Menby DIANE Publishing Company by DIANE Publishing Company (2004)
"Although many of these patients had original biopsies that were directed by abnormal DRE or TRUS results instead of multiple, systematic biopsies. ..."

5. Digestive Diseases in the United States: Epidemiology and Impact edited by James E. Everhart (1995)
"The diagnostic yield from biopsies depends on the gross appearance of the tumor ... biopsies are more likely to be positive with exophytic lesions than with ..."

6. Improving Breast Imaging Quality Standards by Sharyl J. Nass, John Ball (2005)
"It is not documented what proportion of facilities performing breast ultrasound exams or guided biopsies are accredited, nor is there firm evidence that ..."

7. The Status of Efforts to Identify Persian Gulf War Syndrome edited by Christopher Shays (1999)
"Dermatology and infectious disease: multiple skin biopsies, lymph node biopsies, multiple bone marrows. Ophthalmology: visual field tests, legal blindness ..."

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