Dictionary Check: invasiveness
"invasiveness" is a valid word!
Scrabble
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Words with Friends
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Definition
noun
The quality of involving entry into the living body (as by incision or by insertion of an instrument).
Example:
"Surgeons have traditionally performed this surgery using a conventional open incision into the chest wall or abdomen but today are increasingly offering the operation as a laparoscopic procedure that lessens the invasiveness of the surgery."
noun
The quality of tending to spread; especially of tending to invade healthy tissue.
Example:
"Our results provide support for within-host evolution as one but not the sole explanation for the invasiveness of these bacteria."
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