noninvasive
adjective
non·in·va·sive
ˌnän-in-ˈvā-siv 
-ziv
1
: not tending to spread
specifically
: not tending to infiltrate and destroy healthy tissue
noninvasive cancer of the bladder
2
: not being or involving an invasive medical procedure
noninvasive imaging techniques
noninvasively
adverb
Examples of noninvasive in a Sentence
noninvasive techniques of measuring brain activity
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Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 13 Nov. 2024
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Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 13 Nov. 2024
Threshold Care’s new Motion Wi-Fi Sensing Plugs can help caregivers monitor older adults, like aging parents, in a noninvasive way that maintains the privacy of everyone in the home.
—Wes Davis, The Verge, 10 Oct. 2024
Celebrity aesthetician Athena Hewett adds that noninvasive RF treatments involve applying an electrode device to the skin, allowing the RF energy to penetrate a few millimeters deep to reach the collagen layer by passing through the epidermis.
—Iman Balagam, Vogue, 14 Sep. 2024
Yet old-school tracking—a cheap, noninvasive method capable of providing astonishing quantities of data—is experiencing a revival.
—Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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noninvasive
adjective
non·in·va·sive
ˌnän-in-ˈvā-siv, -ziv
1
: not tending to spread
specifically
: not tending to infiltrate and destroy healthy tissue
noninvasive cancer of the bladder
2
: not being or involving an invasive medical procedure
noninvasive imaging techniques that do not require the injection of dyes
noninvasively
adverb
noninvasiveness
noun
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