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

/ ˌnɒnɪnˈveɪsɪv /

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

Other Word Forms

• noninvasively adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of noninvasive¹

First recorded in 1970–75; non- + invasive

Example Sentences

Glanville claimed that she had since spent more than $70,000 on noninvasive procedures to pinpoint exactly what was going on.

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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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