Tending to penetrate healthy tissue.

Nonindigenous and tending to spread. Invasive species tend to displace native species.

A population or species that is expanding its range (adjective); often an adventive species, but by definition not necessarily so. Unfortunately, this word has recently been used in places where the word adventive is the appropriate expression - and thus is replacing "non-indigenous" as current jargon.

describes something that spreads throughout body tissues, such as a tumor or microorganism; also describes a medical procedure in which body tissues are penetrated

intrude on others' territory or rights

The ability of a plant to spread quickly and will crowd out other plantings Great for a ground cover but dangerous for a well kept, under control garden bed.

Pertaining to a bacterium (1) capable of penetrating the host's defenses; (2) capable of entering host cells or passing through mucosal surfaces and spreading in the body.

Describing plants that spread out of control.

Any plant that grows aggressively enough to crowd out other plants. Usually, but not always, applied to non-native species.

(adj.) Any plant that grows so aggressively that it crowds out other plants. Often applied to non-native species.

To encroach upon, to spread through, and usually harm.

Species- Species tending to intrude or encroach.

An introduced (non-native) plant that disrupts the local ecosystem and isn't checked by climate, grazing, or other natural means. Extreme examples include kudzu vine ( Pueraria lobata), which can grow 35 feet in one season and which the American Horticultural Society's A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants calls "the vine that ate the South".

marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue; "invasive cancer cells"

involving invasion or aggressive attack; "invasive war"

gradually intrusive without right or permission; "we moved back from the encroaching tide"; "invasive tourists"; "trespassing hunters"

tending to intrude or encroach; takes over the native growth

A term used to describe cancer that is able to invade and actively destroy surrounding healthy tissues. Jaundice: A buildup if bilirubin that causes a yellowish appearance. Kegel Exercises: Pelvic muscle exercises that assist in bladder and bowel control.

cancer Breast cancer that has spread outside the milk ducts or the lobule in the breast where it started to grow.

Introduced species or organism which causes damage to biodiversity, agricultural production or human health.

n. An exotic species that has few natural enemies and that can quickly multiply upon the landscape. v. To crowd out other species and quickly multiply upon the landscape.

See Non-native.

Non-native species that out competes native species for resources

When one species crosses into a region where they are not indigenous.

Tumor which grows into and destroys healthy tissue; same as infiltrating.

A plant that spreads quickly, usually by runners, and mixes with or dominates adjacent plants.

Tending to spread and then dominate the new area.

when a plant, usually non-native, is able to establish itself within existing native plant communities and is posing a threat to integrity of the community

Marked by the tendency to intrude or encroach

tending to spread, infringe or encroach upon

A type of plant or animal that is not lcoal to an area, but rather originates from another place. Also called "exotic," "non-native," or "alien" species.

cancer: Cancer that has spread beyond the layer of tissue in which it developed and is growing into surrounding, healthy tissues. Also called infiltrating cancer.

refers to a species, not previously present in a plant community, that aggressively increases in abundance due to ecosystem disturbance or because it is an exotic species alienated from its competitors and herbivores. Karst: a limestone-rich landscape characterized by chemical erosion producing various sinkholes, fissures, underground streams, and caverns. Lacustrine: of or having to do with lakes.

Refers to a tumor that invades healthy tissues; also called diffuse or infiltrating.

An invasive medical procedure is one in which body tissues are penetrated by an instrument.

In medical terms, going inside the body.

Medical tests which involve gaining entry into the body via a needle, tube, or hand.

As in “invasive procedures”: Procedures involving interference to change an outcome. It could also mean penetrating, or entering, the temporal order of the proceedings, or the physical body.

Referring to a test or procedure that causes the skin to be broken or an organ or cavity of the body to be entered. Surgery, for example, is an invasive procedure.

Said of techniques that "invade" the body's barriers by cutting or puncturing the skin or by inserting instruments into the body.

"Invading" the body's barriers, typically by cutting or puncturing the skin or by inserting instruments into the body.

Examination which involves the introduction of an instrument (or other matter) into the body.

procedures which involve passing a needle into the womb to collect a sample of the amniotic fluid.

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Introduced into the body.

Means barging in to some place where you are not wanted. The exotic invaders are invasive.

requiring an incision or the insertion of an instrument or substance into the body

A tumor which penetrates into the deeper skin structures, the lymph nodes, or the internal organs.

Any procedure involving entry into the living body, including entry by incision or insertion of an instrument.

An invasive procedure requires an incision.

Diagnostic tests or procedures, which involve the insertion of instruments thru the skin; as in surgery or the insertion of catheters for the injection of dye, or placement of balloons or other therapeutic devices.

A puncture or incision of the skin or insertion of an instrument or foreign material into the body

Relating to a medical procedure in which a part of the body is entered, as by puncture or incision. Invasive procedures such as tissue biopsies or angiograms are sometimes necessary to diagnose vasculitis.

Having or showing a tendency to spread from the point of origin to adjacent tissue, as some cancers do. Involving cutting or puncturing the skin or inserting instruments into the body.

refers to a procedure that involves entry into or invasion of the body (e.g., making an incision, inserting an instrument). Also refers to a cancer that spreads from its original site to other parts of the body.

Refers to a tumor that invades healthy tissues. The opposite of encapsulated. Also calleddiffuse or infiltrating.

Refers to a medical procedure in which a bodily orifice or the skin must be penetrated for the purpose of collecting data, or for diagnosing or treating a disorder.

Going under the skin to into an orifice.

(in-vA-siv)• Denoting or characterized by invasion. • Denoting a procedure requiring insertion of an instrument or device into the body through the skin or a body orifice for diagnosis or treatment.

A procedure which is usually complex and requires appreciable penetration into internal areas of the body

1 - Any treatment or procedure that depends on some instrument that has to pierce or cut into the patient to reach the part of the body where it is used. 2 - Relating to the degree to which a malignant tumour grows into adjoining organs and tissues.

means "penetrating." Invasive tests or procedures are those which puncture the skin or penetrate the body.

A medical procedure involving incision or puncture of the skin or insertion of a foreign object into the body. See non-invasive.