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

New York Yankees pitcher Domingo Germán was ejected from a May 16 game in Toronto this season for using a foreign substance on the mound and suspended 10 games by MLB the following day.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 13, 2023

An undetermined foreign substance sickened inmates, then staff, at the Graham Correctional Center in Hillsboro, Illinois, Wednesday.

From Washington Times • Jan. 19, 2023

Again Mr. Naylor showed interest, and learned that the water pressure was not all that it should be in the neighbourhood, and it was thought that some foreign substance had got into the pipes.

From John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall by Jenkins, Herbert George