Device - Invasive

Invasive in a body orifice or surgically invasive?

Body orifice:

• means a natural opening, or a permanent artificial opening, in a human being's body; and
• includes the external surface of a human being's eyeball

This type of medical device only enters a natural orifice such as the nasal cavity or the mouth, or a permanent created orifice; it does not cut through the surface of the body or any surface of the orifice.

Surgically invasive:

These types of medical devices are intended to be used with the aid, or in the context, of a surgical operation; and also includes devices that penetrate the body in any way other than by entering a body orifice.