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
It rests on the fact that when a foreign substance comes into the blood, the blood reacts, with the formation of a protective ferment produced as a result of physiologic and pathologic conditions.
From The Social Gangster by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
