invasive: having the ability to enter and destroy surrounding tissue
Circumferential
sterilize
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.
-lytic
periapical
Periarteritis
fulguration
Phagocytes
Peritoneum
Spermicidal means pertaining to destroying sperm.
The eponychium, also known as the cuticle, is the thickened layer of skin surrounding fingernails and toenails.