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Let's discuss what "invasive" means. Putting something in the body and getting it back out without tearing, is not invasive. Eating and vomiting would be categ
by Supermancho 3y ago
Let's discuss what "invasive" means.
Putting something in the body and getting it back out without tearing, is not invasive. Eating and vomiting would be categorized as invasive, in context.
A colonoscopy/endoscopy is internal and dangerous, which is not the same thing as being invasive, so the term "minimally invasive" is sometimes used as a happy middleground, which has then been sensationalized.
- hermitcrab 3y agoThe first relevant definition I found online was: "(of medical procedures) involving the introduction of instruments or other objects into the body or body cavities." YMMV
- Supermancho 3y agoMaybe it's something more like the insertion of a foreign instrument through the epidermis or into a body cavity that... I dunno. Ears (eardrums), colons, etc are tricky to cover all at once. I don't envy the authors of medical literature.
- OneLeggedCat 3y agoAh. So vaginal probes are not invasive. Interesting take you have.
- msrenee 3y agoNot in medical terminology, no. I certainly wouldn't call a pap smear an invasive procedure.
- DanBC 3y ago> Let's discuss what "invasive" means. > Putting something in the body and getting it back out without tearing, is not invasive. Just for clarity colonoscopy is an invasive procedure.
- Supermancho 3y ago> Let's discuss what "invasive" means. > Just for clarity colonoscopy is an invasive procedure. The definition is the point at hand. Stating that it is intrinsically a truism, is not compelling.