foreign body
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He felt like he had a foreign body inside of him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2024
Four weeks after the bite, Mr Blake discovered a "foreign body" in his foot.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2023
The culprit is a little-understood immune reaction called foreign body response, or FBR, in which the body encapsulates the implant in scar tissue.
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
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