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invasive::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | encroaching, trespassing |
| Derivation | invade |
invasive tourists.
invasive::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Derivation | invade |
invasive cancer cells.
invasive::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of invasive
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Phragmites are just one of many invasive species that have threatened Lake Erie.
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Even the most popular and least invasive method, laser surgery, can leave scars.
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Surgeons are often deaf to patients'compelling desire for less invasive options.
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He believes screening can be credited with a decrease in invasive cancers found.
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Invasive aquatic plants such as salvinia don't just impact a few bass fishermen.
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However, it has several pitfalls and requires an invasive procedure in children.
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The invasive plant has even garnered enough attention to merit its own cookbook.
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It's a non-invasive ornamental grass that spreads slowly by underground stolons.
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Wisteria has now become almost as invasive as kudzu in East Texas and Louisiana.
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- Relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision
- Marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue; "invasive cancer cells"
- Incursive: involving invasion or aggressive attack; "invasive war"
- Encroaching(a): gradually intrusive without right or permission; "we moved back from the encroaching tide"; "invasive tourists"; "trespassing hunters"
- There are three main categories which describe the invasiveness of surgical procedures. These are: non-invasive procedures, minimally invasive procedures, and invasive procedures (the latter of which may also be called open surgery).
- An invasive organism, as, a plant or animal; that invades a foreign country using military force; that invades a habitat to the detriment of native species; (of a carcinoma etc) that invades healthy tissue; (of a procedure) in which part of the body is entered; intruding on one's privacy, or ...
- (Invasiveness) Invasive infection has been reported in humans^[22]^[68] and animal studies.^[35]
- (invasiveness) Ability of a plant to spread beyond its introduction site and become established in new locations, where it may have a deleterious effect on organisms already existing there.
- (invasiveness) Degree to which an organism is able to spread through the body from a focus of infection.
