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biopsying

biopsying is the present participle and gerund of biopsy.

Meaning of biopsy

Verb

biopsy (third-person singular simple present biopsies, present participle biopsying, simple past and past participle biopsied)

  1. To take a sample (a biopsy) for pathological examination.
    • They biopsied the lump but it turned out to be non-cancerous.

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Questions about biopsying

What is biopsying the present participle and gerund of?
Biopsying is the present participle and gerund of biopsy.

Words near biopsying in the dictionary

  1. biopsychology
  2. biopsychosocial
  3. biopsychosocially
  4. biopsychosociocultural
  5. biopsychospiritual
  6. biopsying
  7. biopterin
  8. biopterins
  9. bioptic
  10. bioptical
  11. biopticon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: biopsying (page history and authors); biopsy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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