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biopsy
has definitions from the field of medicine
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[ noun ] (medicine) examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to determine the existence or cause of a disease
Used in print (J. W. C. Hagstrom et al., "Debilitating muscular...)Although biopsies have shown structural changes in some of the reported cases of steroid induced weakness , this case provides the only example known to us in which necropsy afforded the opportunity for extensive study of multiple muscle groups . Splenomegaly was first noted in 1956 , and a sternal marrow biopsy at that time showed `` scattered foci of fibrosis '' suggestive_of myelofibrosis . In February , 1959 , during the second admission to The New_York_Hospital , a biopsy specimen of the left gastrocnemius showed striking increase in the sarcolemmal sheath nuclei and shrunken muscle_fibers in several sections . Related terms diagnostic_assay assay needle_biopsy chorionic_villus_sampling blood_test |
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