noninvasive

American  

[non-in-vey-siv] / ˌnɒn ɪnˈveɪ sɪv /

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.

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noninvasive British  

/ 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

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Other Word Forms

• noninvasively adverb

Etymology

Origin of noninvasive

First recorded in 1970–75; non- + invasive

Example Sentences

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, working with scientists at Northwestern University, have created a noninvasive strategy to treat one of the most aggressive and deadly forms of brain cancer.

From Science Daily

He says one Denver-based pediatrician told him, “‘Imagine you can do a breath analysis on children, which is totally noninvasive.

From Scientific American

This noninvasive method, commonly used in neuroscience research, tracks changes in blood flow within the brain to measure neural activity.

From Science Magazine

The research, published on Monday in Nature Communications, is what Tang describes as “a proof of concept that language can be decoded from noninvasive recordings of brain activity.”

From Scientific American

"While modifications are needed before widespread implementation, this study supports use of dogs for efficient and noninvasive COVID-19 screening and could be used for other pathogens," the researchers stated.

From Salon