microinvasion

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noun

microscopic invasion

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounmicroinvasion (countable and uncountable, plural microinvasions)

plural microinvasions

  1. countableuncountablemicroscopic invasion

    In addition, for T4a lesions with perigastric microinvasion, even increasing the window width and window level in conventional MDCT could not clearly determine serosal invasion.

    2015 September 16, “Quantification of the Iodine Content of Perigastric Adipose Tissue by Dual-Energy CT: A Novel Method for Preoperative Diagnosis of T4-Stage Gastric Cancer”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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    Similar to 18 F-tLyP-1, the tumor/brain ratios of FAM-tLyP-1 was also high, indicating both molecular reagents could likely by used to identify glioma microinvasions before the surgery and intraoperation to guide the resection of malignant glioma.

    2015 September 24, “Use of Labelled tLyP-1 as a Novel Ligand Targeting the NRP Receptor to Image Glioma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

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APA

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MLA

“microinvasion.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microinvasion. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “microinvasion,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microinvasion.

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