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
Four weeks after the bite, Mr Blake discovered a "foreign body" in his foot.
From BBC • Nov. 27, 2023
"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
The A.I. has seen this fruit but cannot know why it’s there — and so the version it creates is a rogue foreign body, a cancerous green lump that starts to subsume the juice entirely.
From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2023
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
