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biopsy

medical test involving extraction of sample cells or tissues for examination to determine the presence or extent of a disease
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biopsy

Summary

biopsy is a medical test type[1]. biopsy draws 948 Wikipedia views per month (medical_test_type category, ranking #11 of 59).[2]

Key Facts

  • biopsy's instance of is recorded as medical test type[3].
  • biopsy is a type of invasive test[4].
  • biopsy is a type of sampling[5].
  • biopsy's Commons category is recorded as Biopsies[6].
  • biopsy's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Biopsy[7].
  • biopsy's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C15189[8].
  • biopsy's health specialty is recorded as surgery[9].
  • biopsy's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[10].

Body

Definition and Type

biopsy's instance of is recorded as medical test type[3]. Recorded subclass of include invasive test[4] and sampling[5].

Why It Matters

biopsy draws 948 Wikipedia views per month (medical_test_type category, ranking #11 of 59).[2] biopsy has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] biopsy is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Related Entities

surgery

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). biopsy. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/biopsy
MLA “biopsy.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/biopsy.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_biopsy_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{biopsy}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/biopsy}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Health specialty → surgery
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → invasive test, sampling
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 6704, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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