When a sample of tissue or fluid is removed with a needle in such a way that cells are removed without preserving the histological architecture of the tissue cells, the procedure is called a needle aspiration biopsy.

Periodically, this drill, like a biopsy needle, plunges thousands of feet deep into the ice to extract a marrow of gases and isotopes for analysis.

This typically involves the insertion, under local anaesthetic and ultrasound or CT guidance, of a core biopsy needle into the kidney to obtain a small sample of kidney tissue.

Where definitive diagnosis is required, a biopsy of the kidney (renal biopsy) may be performed.

Threading the Fiscal Needle

A small skin sample (biopsy) may help confirm the diagnosis.

He was afraid of the needle.

Access to needle and syringe programmes

Sami didn't know what Layla's needle contained.

Sami pulled a needle out of his pocket.

I told him, bear with me on the needle.

The needle method has the advantage that the needle can be placed at the bottom of the flask to better flush out the atmosphere of the flask.

It is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

A magnetic needle is placed parallel with the copper strip.

It's got a needle, like a record needle, that goes back and forth over the surface, bumps up and down, and feels the height of the first surface.

Because your choice now is either I use my own needle now, or I could share a needle now and get a disease that's going to possibly kill me 10 years from now, or I could use my own needle now and go to jail tomorrow.

Of the 10 referred for biopsy, about 3.5 will have a cancer and 6.5 will not.

The depth of a burn is usually determined via examination, although a biopsy may also be used.

Two weeks after my diagnosis, a biopsy confirmed I had a seven inch osteosarcoma in my left femur.

The diagnosis is made through a combination of the clinical picture and examination, and is confirmed by biopsy.

In some circumstances, kidney biopsy will also be used to monitor response to treatment and identify early relapse.

The true explanation was reserved for Faraday, namely, that electric currents are induced in the copper disc by the cutting of the magnetic lines of force of the needle, which currents in turn react on the needle.

I returned home early to have a biopsy, but the pathology lab was achingly slow days passed with no word.

Shen Kuo pointed out that a needle prepared this way sometimes pointed south, sometimes north.

About 10 of these individuals will be referred for a biopsy the remaining 60 are found to be of benign cause.

A confounding factor in this analysis is the existing policy of screening and use of kidney biopsy as an investigative tool.

Construction of a magnetic compass Magnetic needle A magnetic rod is required when constructing a compass.

There are a number of blood tests available that try to determine the degree of hepatic fibrosis and alleviate the need for biopsy.

But you get too many stitches on the needle. So she quickly realized crochet was the better thing.

Elevated PSA levels would suggest the presence of prostate cancer, even if no physical abnormalities were detected, so a tissue biopsy would be conducted.

And he said, That's ridiculous. You can't make a needle by rubbing a lump of iron with a cloth.

Bleeding from mucous membranes or from sites of needle punctures has been reported in 40 50 percent of cases.

The typical Chinese navigational compass was in the form of a magnetic needle floating in a bowl of water.

Vibration of the diaphragm caused a needle to vibrate in the water, varying the electrical resistance in the circuit.

In an active surveillance program, a patient diagnosed with a PSA prompted biopsy delays treatment. Instead, he is closely monitored with various follow up tests.

In general, a clinical myopathy and a muscle biopsy showing a centronuclear (nucleus in the center of the muscle cell) appearance would indicate a centronuclear myopathy (CNM).

And she put in the world's first national needle exchange program, and other countries followed suit Australia, The Netherlands and few others.

Since assuming office, President Barack Obama has made clear his desire to lift the federal ban on needle exchange in the United States.

Aref Farris decided to use the word needle on a kid, and it freaked him out. Farris I told him how it is.

Such devices were universally used as compass until the invention of the box like compass with a 'dry' pivoting needle sometime around 1300.

The gas can be introduced through the side arm of the flask, or via a wide bore needle (attached to a gas line).

However, according to Kreutz there is only a single Chinese reference to a dry mounted needle (built into a pivoted wooden tortoise) which is dated to between 1150 and 1250, and claims that there is no clear indication that Chinese mariners ever used anything but the floating needle in a bowl until the 16th century.

Without work it is difficult anywhere. In Turkey, searching for a proper job is like looking for a needle in a pile of straw.

According to the Transnational Institute this explains why, until recently, UNODC did not promote harm reduction policies like needle exchange and Heroin assisted treatment.

False negatives are common, however, because the disease progresses typically from the epicardium to the endocardium (with the biopsy sample coming from the endocardium), and the segmental nature of the disease.