LOL. It hard to imagine anything much more invasive than having a metal tube (with light and camera) shoved up your arse. It is definitely unpleasant. I speak from personal experience. That said, it is less unpleasant than bowel cancer. So don't be put off if you really need to get it done. It's not that bad.
Well, how about an operation where sharp tools are used to slice open parts of your body that are otherwise entirely sealed, by design? To my mind, that's at least an order of magnitude more unpleasant and invasive.
> It's not that bad.
Totally agree. At commented elsewhere here, the prep process isn't that bad, and is still much worse than the procedure itself.
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.
"(of medical procedures) involving the introduction of instruments or other objects into the body or body cavities."
YMMV
I dunno. Ears (eardrums), colons, etc are tricky to cover all at once. I don't envy the authors of medical literature.
> Putting something in the body and getting it back out without tearing, is not invasive.
Just for clarity colonoscopy is an invasive procedure.
> 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.
The prep, however, was pretty bad...