How to Use biopsy in a Sentence

biopsy

noun

• Five weeks into treatment, a rash spread across my body like an acid burn, requiring a biopsy.
  — Katie Gutierrez, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
• More and more transplant centers are using biopsies to help them with this decision.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2019
• Physicians around the country are now comparing notes — as well as biopsies of injured lungs.
  — NBC News, 29 Aug. 2019
• His dentist referred him to an ear, nose, and throat doctor, who did a biopsy, which was inconclusive.
  — Michele Cohen Marill, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2019
• Abnormal results may lead to a bone marrow biopsy or MRI scan.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2024
• But the biopsy was delayed from April to May, and then to September, due to staff shortages.
  — Se Eun Gong, NPR, 15 Sep. 2024
• The court said in a statement that a biopsy performed July 31 confirmed a localized malignant tumor.
  — Jessica Gresko, The Denver Post, 23 Aug. 2019
• In up to 30% of cases of early-stage breast cancer treated before surgery, doctors can’t find evidence of cancer cells in postoperative biopsies.
  — Alice Park, Time, 8 Aug. 2019
• This test was conducted in a sedated live pig, with the scientist able to bend the endoscope into a full U-turn and even take a useable biopsy of the animal’s stomach wall tissue.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2024
• The meat begins with a biopsy the size of a sesame seed.
  — Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019
• That pushed her to give me a CT scan of my chest and a biopsy.
  — Julia Sullivan, SELF, 19 June 2024
• And the scare turned out to be nothing — the biopsy came back clear.
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 13 May 2021
• Yuengling had a few things on her mind when signing up for the biopsy.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2022
• In the president's case, the site of the biopsy has healed nicely, O’Connor wrote.
  — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
• For the biopsy, she was placed in stirrups and given a spinal epidural to numb the area.
  — Rachel E. Gross, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
• The doctor may want to take a biopsy of an abnormal area on the skin.
  — Anne Grauel, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 15 May 2021
• Be present for my wife in the days leading up to her kidney biopsy.
  — Nick Fuller Googins, Men's Health, 17 Aug. 2022
• And if all these were normal, the next step would be a bone-marrow biopsy.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2021
• The lump turned into a scan, and the scan that turned into a biopsy–no–three biopsies.
  — Jessica Boudreaux, SPIN, 2 June 2022
• The next day, a doctor called with the results of her kidney biopsy.
  — The Philadelphia Inquirer, oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2020
• The time from the biopsy to the implantation is about four to six weeks, Atala said.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 10 June 2022
• After the biopsy, Sylvia soon learned that doctors had found a melanoma.
  — Serena Coady, SELF, 18 Apr. 2022
• Thinking the spot on his ear could be basal cell again, a biopsy was taken.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2019
• He was scheduled for a biopsy and a spinal tap—last-ditch efforts to find the source of his illness.
  — Zoya Teirstein, Wired, 25 Sep. 2021
• The tool should increase the odds a biopsy is successful, Sloan said.
  — Evan MacDonald, cleveland, 19 Mar. 2021
• The next step would have to be a bone-marrow biopsy, Rajguru said.
  — New York Times, 30 Sep. 2021
• Younger women tend to have denser breasts, which can result in more biopsies.
  — Christina Ruffini, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2023
• Brody, the oldest of the trio, had been declared cancer-free after a biopsy.
  — Lia Picard New York Times, Star Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021
• There are some types of cancers where a biopsy has a higher risk of causing spread.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 10 July 2021
• In a matter of days I would be asked to return for an ultrasound and then a biopsy.
  — Eva Crawford, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024