Noun: biopsy
| Singular | biopsy |
| Plural | biopsies |
Sample Sentences
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We will need to perform a biopsy to determine whether the tumour is malignant or benign.
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All the while he was talking, he took lots of biopsies, small samples of tissue to be examined by pathologists using a microscope. [2021, Dr Philippa Kaye, Doctors Get Cancer Too, Vie Books, page 22:]
Nouns inflected like biopsy
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French biopsie, from bi- + -opsy. See: French Nouns '
biopsie'.
Verbs referencing "biopsy"
Polish Nouns
biopsja.