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biopsy

Go to external page http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0002650

A specimen collection that obtains a sample of tissue or cell from a living multicellular organism body for diagnostic purposes by means intended to be minimally invasive.

Term info

Label

biopsy

definition source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopsy

example of usage

Biopsy of a potentially cancerous mole.

has curation status

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000122

term editor

Nicole Vasilevsky, Damion Dooley