What's the difference between invader and invasion?

Invader


Definition:

  • (n.) One who invades; an assailant; an encroacher; an intruder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ukip and the Greens are beneficiaries of this new political reality – as, arguably, is the SNP as it prepares to invade Labour’s heartland in Scotland next May.
  • (2) In cancer of the pancreas head, cancer cells could invade the portal vein and perineural space of the celiac plexus, and metastasize to regional lymph nodes around the celiac axis.
  • (3) It is apparent that in the development of reactive arthritis the patient fails in his first line of defence against the invading microorganism.
  • (4) All three parasite lines required sialic acid for optimal invasion, but Thai-2 parasites cultured in Tn erythrocytes invaded neuraminidase-treated erythrocytes with 45% efficiency whereas Camp parasites invaded neuraminidase-treated erythrocytes with less than 10% efficiency.
  • (5) The conclusion is that AIDS has invaded Taiwan, but the prevalence of the HIV infection is presently low.
  • (6) They have similar axon trajectories into the thoracic ganglia, where they invade functionally related neuropils.
  • (7) Worms had invaded the bile duct in 51 patients, the pancreatic duct in four and both ducts in four.
  • (8) Dictated by underlying physicochemical constraints, deceived at times by the lulling tones of the siren entropy, and constantly vulnerable to the vagaries of other more pervasive forms of biological networking and information transfer encoded in the genes of virus and invading microorganisms, protein biorecognition in higher life forms, and particularly in mammals, represents the finely tuned molecular avenues for the genome to transfer its information to the next generation.
  • (9) Survival rates after curative gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer among 238 patients in whom the cancer was invading the serosa were compared with 283 patients without serosal invasion.
  • (10) The immune system has evolved to protect an organism from the pathogens that invade it but the effector mechanisms involved in mediating this protection are potentially lethal to the host itself.
  • (11) In this report, it will be stressed that when clival chordoma invades intradually, subtemporal approach will be most favorable, and metrizamide CT cisternography is one of the useful diagnostic procedures of retroclival mass.
  • (12) On 21 August 1968, armies of five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and East Germany – invaded Czechoslovakia to crush democratic reforms known as the Prague spring.
  • (13) He had undergone pelvic exenteration with the ureterostomy for rectal cancer invading the bladder five months previously and retrograde ureteric catheters were inserted bilaterally into the ureters.
  • (14) The Sunni, driven from power and office by the invaders, were unwilling to accept their newly diminished status.
  • (15) Pterygia, triangular sheets of fibrovascular tissue that invade the cornea, have recurrence rates of 30% to 50% with currently available surgical procedures.
  • (16) Infections of Leishmania mexicana in cultured normal mouse peritoneal macrophages show different morphological features depending on whether the parasites invade as promastigote or amastigote forms.
  • (17) The interstitium between alveoli is invaded with lymphocytes, macrophages, plasma cells and fibroblasts.
  • (18) The hypoxic fraction increased dramatically when these tumours invaded the subcutaneous tissues, or when tumours were implanted subcutaneously (TCD50 greater than 5,544 rad).
  • (19) "Russia has invaded a sovereign neighbouring state and threatens a democratic government elected by its people.
  • (20) This report presents a patient with a tumor of the splenic flexure invading the diaphragm, greater curvature of the stomach, splenic hilum, and tail of the pancreas.

Invasion


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.
  • (n.) A warlike or hostile entrance into the possessions or domains of another; the incursion of an army for conquest or plunder.
  • (n.) The incoming or first attack of anything hurtful or pernicious; as, the invasion of a disease.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
  • (2) This study compared the non-invasive vascular profiles, coagulation tests, and rheological profiles of 46 consecutive cases of low-tension glaucoma with 69 similarly unselected cases of high-tension glaucoma and 47 age-matched controls.
  • (3) Implantation of the mouse embryo involves the invasion of the secondary trophoblast giant cells of the ectoplacental cone (EPC) into the uterine decidua.
  • (4) We have used a modification of the rotating-frame imaging technique to measure PCr-to-ATP ratio non-invasively in human heart.
  • (5) Thirty had an in situ tumor (mean age: 30 years) and 34 had an invasive adenocarcinoma (mean age: 45 years), 7 of whom died of their cancer.
  • (6) This case is unusual in that it demonstrated no malignant epithelium beyond that of a borderline tumor, but met the criteria of malignancy because of its invasiveness and metastasis.
  • (7) In invasive epidermoid carcinoma, the accuracy with the self-collected specimens approached the physician-scraped specimens.
  • (8) Rifampin is recommended as a prophylactic treatment for intimate contacts of young children who develop invasive infections with Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib).
  • (9) It is concluded that the transcutaneous ultrasound technique provides a reliable, rapidly available, non-invasive method to confirm the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis.
  • (10) Subsequent radiological follow-up demonstrated the rapid growth of the tumor hence exhibiting a very invasive form.
  • (11) The circle rate correlated with the extent of mural invasion.
  • (12) Minimal breast cancer should include lobular carcinoma in situ (lobular neoplasia) and ductal carcinoma in situ regardless of nodal status, and (tentatively) invasive carcinoma smaller than 1 cm in total diameter, if axillary lymph nodes are not involved.
  • (13) The diagnosis of meningeal cyst was confirmed in a non-invasive way by MRI showing a mass with the same signal intensities as CSF on both T1 and T2 weighted images.
  • (14) The carcinoma and lymphoma of the stomach were both small, and the depth of invasion was localized to the mucosa and submucosa, respectively.
  • (15) A transurethral prostatic resection for prostatism in a 73 year old man showed a cluster of richly capillarised clear cells originally thought to be indicative of invasive carcinoma.
  • (16) However, the typically deep invasion of the former tumors and their histologic features indicate that they are highly aggressive neoplasms.
  • (17) The presence of prostatic invasion either into the stroma or involving prostatic ducts and acini only had no adverse effect on outcome.
  • (18) Fifty-seven patients underwent local excision of an invasive distal rectal cancer as an initial operative procedure with curative intent.
  • (19) That most of the neoplasms found were adenomas and not invasive cancer may be due to the relative youth of most of those screened.
  • (20) At 24 weeks, 24-h mean blood pressures (MBP), measured invasively, were 121 mmHg (perindopril), 137 mmHg (captopril), 140 mmHg (hydralazine), 149 mmHg (isradipine) and 146 mmHg (metoprolol), compared to control values of 177 mmHg (SHR) and 132 mmHg (Wistar-Kyoto rats, WKY).