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biopsia
The removal and examination of a sample of tissue, cells, or bodily fluid from a living body for diagnostic purposes.
All the while he was talking, he took lots of biopsies, small samples of tissue to be examined by pathologists using a microscope.
We will need to perform a biopsy to determine whether the tumour is malignant or benign.
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