See Also: Invasive(medicine)
invasive(dictionary)
invasive(dictionary)
Invasive(health)
Non-invasive procedures(health)
Invasive cancer(health)
Invasive Techniques(health)
invasive species(medicine)
invasive mole(medicine)
invasive carcinoma(medicine)

invasive (iou)



invasive adjective. LME.
[French invasif, -ive or medieval Latin invasivus, from Latin invas-: see INVASION, -IVE.]
Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of invasion or attack; offensive. LME.
A. Forbes What course of invasive action did it behove Lord Chelmsford to pursue?
Characterized by invasion; invading. L16.
C. Tomalin She sensed the evident hostility many..felt for the invasive white people.
b. Medicine. Of, exhibiting, or characterized by invasiveness. E20.
c. Medicine. Of a diagnostic procedure: involving the entry of an instrument into the body. L20.
Tending to intrude upon the domain or rights of another. L17.
H. J. S. Maine A proceeding invasive of tribal rights and calculated to enfeeble them.
invasiveness noun (Medicine) the ability of pathogenic micro-organisms or malignant cells that are already in the body to spread to new sites M20.