Invasive

invasive ( Latin invadere "to invade, to penetrate") means "to penetrate" and can refer to:

• Tissue-damaging medical diagnostics or therapeutics, see non-invasive # invasive and invasive medicine
• the penetration of a cancerous tumor into adjacent tissue, see tumor classification (neoplasia)
• in the body of invading pathogens
• the invasion of an ecosystem by alien species, see biological invasion

See also:

• invasion

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.