Biopsy with intent!: An excisional biopsy is a biopsy where the lesion is also excised or removed. When people here the word biopsy, they usually think that just a small sampling of the lesion will be obtained. However, there are times when its more appropriate to remove the whole lesion and send it to pathology.
Taurine is named after the Latin taurus (a cognate of the Greek ÏÎ±á¿¦ÏÎ¿Ï) which means bull or ox, as it was first isolated from ox bile in 1827 by German scientists Friedrich Tiedemann and Leopold Gmelin.
Taurine is a type of amino acid found throughout the body. It is particularly concentrated in the brain, eyes, heart and muscles (5, 6). Unlike most other amino acids, it is not used to build proteins in the body. It is classified as a âconditionally essentialâ amino acid.