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in⋅va⋅sive

  [in-vey-siv]
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–adjective
1. characterized by or involving invasion; offensive: invasive war.
2. invading, or tending to invade; intrusive.
3. Medicine/Medical. requiring the entry of a needle, catheter, or other instrument into a part of the body, esp. in a diagnostic procedure, as a biopsy.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME < ML invāsīvus. See invasion, -ive
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in·va·sive   (ĭn-vā'sĭv)   
adj.  

  1. Of, engaging in, or given to armed aggression: an invasive military force.

  2. Marked by the tendency to spread, especially into healthy tissue: an invasive carcinoma.

  3. Of or relating to a medical procedure in which a part of the body is entered, as by puncture or incision.

  4. Tending to intrude or encroach, as upon privacy.


[Middle English, from Old French invasif, from Medieval Latin invāsīvus, from Latin invāsus, past participle of invādere, to invade; see invade.]
in·va'sive·ly adv., in·va'sive·ness n.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: in·va·sive
Pronunciation: -siv, -ziv
Function: adjective
1 : tending to spread; especially : tending toinvade healthy tissue <invasive cancer cells>
2 : involving entry into the living body (as by incision or by insertion of an instrument) <invasive diagnostictechniques> —in·va·sive·ness noun
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invasive in·va·sive (ĭn-vā'sĭv)
adj.

  1. Marked by the tendency to spread, especially into healthy tissue, as a tumor.

  2. Of or relating to a medical procedure in which a part of the body is entered, as by puncture or incision.

in·va'sive·ness n.

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