invasive: having the ability to enter and destroy surrounding tissue
The medical term for having the ability to enter and destroy surrounding tissue is invasive. This term is commonly used to describe how certain diseases or pathogens can spread and damage nearby tissues in the body.
Circumferential
Surrounding has the same meaning in medical and lay language. It means found all around.
Myelitis is the medical term meaning inflammation of the fibrous tissue surrounding a nerve. An example is poliomyelitis.
sterilize
Periarteritis
periapical
-lytic
Phagocytes
Peritoneum
Fetoscopy is direct observation of the fetus and surrounding tissue.
fulguration
Spermicidal means pertaining to destroying sperm.