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relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue; "invasive cancer cells" incursive: involving invasion or aggressive attack; "invasive war" encroaching(a): gradually intrusive without right or permission; "we moved back from the encroaching tide"; "invasive tourists"; "trespassing hunters"
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| invasion |
the act of invading; the act of an army that invades for conquest or plunder any entry into an area not previously occupied; "an invasion of tourists"; "an invasion of locusts" (pathology) the spread of pathogenic microorganisms or malignant cells to new sites in the body; "the tumor's invasion of surrounding structures"
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| inversion |
the layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer abnormal condition in which an organ is turned inward or inside out (as when the upper part of the uterus is pulled into the cervical canal after childbirth) a chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa (genetics) a kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed anastrophe: the reversal of the normal order of words (counterpoint) a variation of a melody or part in which ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex turning upside down; setting on end the act of turning inside out
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| invert |
make an inversion (in a musical composition); "here the theme is inverted" turn back: turn inside out or upside down
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| invertase |
an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of sucrose into glucose and fructose
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