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They cut a wedge out of his liver —a liver biopsy—and dropped the wedge into a bottle of pickling fluid and closed up Musoke as quickly as they could.†
p. 31.7 *

biopsy = removal and examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to determine the existence or cause of a disease
As the first nun at Ngaliema Hospital, Sister M. E., lay dying, her doctors had decided to give her a so-called agonal biopsy.†
p. 114.1
A fair amount of the nun's liver traveled up the needle and filled a biopsy syringe.†
p. 114.4
Possibly it was during this agonal biopsy that her blood squirted on the walls.†
p. 114.5

Definitions:

(1) (biopsy)
removal and examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to determine the existence or cause of a disease
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)