| invasive | medical dictionary |
1. Having the quality of invasiveness.
2. Involving puncture or incision of the skin or insertion of an instrument or foreign material into the body, said of diagnostic techniques.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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