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INVASIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Gradually intrusive without right or permission
Example:
trespassing hunters
Synonyms:
encroaching; invasive; trespassing
Classified under:
Similar:
intrusive (tending to intrude (especially upon privacy))
Derivation:
invade (to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue
Example:
invasive cancer cells
Classified under:
Similar:
aggressive; fast-growing; strong-growing (tending to spread quickly)
Antonym:
confined (not invading healthy tissue)
Derivation:
invade (penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision
Classified under:
Adjectives
Domain category:
medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)
Antonym:
noninvasive (relating to a technique that does not involve puncturing the skin or entering a body cavity)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Involving invasion or aggressive attack
Example:
invasive war
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
offensive (for the purpose of attack rather than defense)
Derivation:
invade (march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation)
Context examples:
A non-invasive or invasive adenocarcinoma arising from a villous adenoma.
(Adenocarcinoma in Villous Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)
An invasive adenocarcinoma characterized by focal or extensive transformation of the malignant glandular cells to cells with abundant, usually granular eosinophilic cytoplasm.
(Adenocarcinoma with Apocrine Metaplasia, NCI Thesaurus)
An invasive carcinoma with glandular differentiation arising from the ampulla of Vater.
(Ampulla of Vater Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
An invasive adenocarcinoma arising from the ampulla of Vater.
(Ampulla of Vater Intestinal Type Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
An invasive adenocarcinoma that arises from an exophytic papillary neoplasm of the ampulla of Vater.
(Ampulla of Vater Invasive Papillary Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A rare spinal tumor which is highly malignant and tends to be locally invasive of surrounding neural tissue.
(Adult Spinal Cord Glioblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)
It is considered a pre-invasive lesion.
(Angiogenic Squamous Dysplasia, NCI Thesaurus)
An invasive adenocarcinoma characterized by focal or extensive cartilage and/or bone formation.
(Adenocarcinoma with Cartilaginous and Osseous Metaplasia, NCI Thesaurus)
An invasive adenocarcinoma characterized by the presence of focal or extensive neurosecretory cell differentiation with the formation of organoid patterns.
(Adenocarcinoma with Neuroendocrine Differentiation, NCI Thesaurus)
An invasive adenocarcinoma characterized by focal or extensive transformation of the malignant glandular cells to spindle-shaped cells.
(Adenocarcinoma with Spindle Cell Metaplasia, NCI Thesaurus)
