foreign body
Example Sentences
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The BBC has seen a medical document in Sina's name that says "there is a 5mm metallic foreign body" behind his eye.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026
He felt like he had a foreign body inside of him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2024
"That foreign body, which is very stiff and causes stress on the external environment, activates these immune cells to aggregate to that area," Chen said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2023
Now, however, with the foreign body in his spine, he is paralyzed from the neck down, except for his right arm.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2016
It is something like the way Dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
