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noninvasive

[ non-in-vey-siv ]

adjective

Medicine/Medical.
  1. not invading adjacent healthy cells, blood vessels, or tissues; localized:

    a noninvasive tumor.

  2. not entering or penetrating the body or disturbing body tissue, especially in a diagnostic procedure.


noninvasive

/ ˌɒɪˈɪɪ /

adjective

  1. (of medical treatment) not involving the making of a relatively large incision in the body or the insertion of instruments, etc, into the patient
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • ԴDzi·s· adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of noninvasive1

First recorded in 1970–75; non- + invasive
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Example Sentences

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Part of Colossal’s announcement this week included news that they had also successfully created four clones of the endangered red wolf using a new noninvasive cloning technology.

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Medical interventions have been noninvasive so far, Glanville said, but surgery could be next.

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They also have plans to work with psychiatrists on noninvasive means of testing the signal in people with schizophrenia.

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Specifically, they used commercially available personal digital devices, limited data filtering, and entirely passively collected and noninvasive data.

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A team of researchers at the University of California San Diego has developed a new and improved wearable ultrasound patch for continuous and noninvasive blood pressure monitoring.

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