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
He was suspended for 10 games by Major League Baseball on April 20 after getting ejected for having a foreign substance on his pitching hand during his April 19 start against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
From Washington Times ● May 4, 2023
He claimed the stickiness was caused by rosin and sweat and not by a foreign substance.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
The growth had been disturbed by some foreign substance, and the graining, instead of being as regular and even as a pattern woven by machinery, swept in irregular curves round the centre of the flaw.
From From Veldt Camp Fires by H.A. Bryden
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