foreign body
Example Sentences
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The BBC has seen a medical document in Sina's name that says "there is a 5mm metallic foreign body" behind his eye.
From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026
He felt like he had a foreign body inside of him.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2024
"Establishing a complete understanding of the molecular mechanisms driving the foreign body response presents the final frontier in developing truly bio-integrative medical devices," Gurtner 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
