verb
- performing a biopsy on; removing and examining tissue from a living body for diagnostic purposes
Usage: medical; present participle of biopsy
Examples
- The doctor is biopsying the suspicious mole to check for cancer.
- They are biopsying tissue from the patient’s liver.
- The surgeon spent the morning biopsying several lymph nodes.
- After biopsying the tumor, the pathologist will analyze the results.
- The medical team is biopsying samples from different areas of the organ.
- She specializes in biopsying difficult-to-reach tissues.