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n.
⦿The quality of involving entry into the living body (as by incision or by insertion of an instrument).

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wn:	part of speech	wn:noun
wn:	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.
∴ontolex:	lexicalized sense	enl:invasiveness

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