foreign substance
Example Sentences
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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 for using a foreign substance on the mound and suspended 10 games by Major League Baseball the following day.
From Washington Times • Jun. 14, 2023
He claimed the stickiness was caused by rosin and sweat and not by a foreign substance.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2023
A grain of sand, or some such minute foreign substance, gets within the jealous valves of the mollusk and causes great irritation to the soft body of the pulpy inhabitant.
From Stories about Famous Precious Stones by Orpen, Mrs Goddard
