angioinvasion
noun1
- Vascular invasion: Invasion (infiltration) of vessels (blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, or both), often and especially by cancer cells, either locoregionally or metastatically.
- In an independent sample set, lower miR-126-3p expression was observed in follicular thyroid cancers (which have capsular and angioinvasion) as compared to follicular adenomas. — 2015