foreign substance
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Because EVs can be produced with materials largely found in a patient's own cells, the body is less likely to treat the particles as a foreign substance.
From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2023
A common cause of death for people with late-stage Alzheimer’s is aspiration pneumonia, an infection in the lungs triggered by food or other foreign substance that goes down the windpipe instead of the esophagus.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2023
He claimed the stickiness was caused by rosin and sweat and not by a foreign substance.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2023
An undetermined foreign substance sickened inmates, then staff, at the Graham Correctional Center in Hillsboro, Illinois, Wednesday.
From Washington Times • Jan. 19, 2023
Another theory that was gaining increasing acceptance was that this foreign substance was an unexpected by-product of the hydrogen and atomic bomb testing that had been going on for so many years.
From The Year When Stardust Fell by Jones, Raymond F.
