foreign body

Example Sentences

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He felt like he had a foreign body inside of him.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2024

After being given antibiotics to combat the toxins, a "foreign body" was cut out of his toe and he is set to make a full recovery.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2023

The culprit is a little-understood immune reaction called foreign body response, or FBR, in which the body encapsulates the implant in scar tissue.

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