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

He claimed the stickiness was caused by rosin and sweat and not by a foreign substance.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2023

Max Scherzer was ejected Wednesday for having a foreign substance on his hand.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2023

An undetermined foreign substance sickened inmates, then staff, at the Graham Correctional Center in Hillsboro, Illinois, Wednesday.

From Washington Times • Jan. 19, 2023

The common attendants upon the shark are the remora, or sucking-fish, and the pilot-fish, the former deriving its name from the firm manner in which it can adhere to any foreign substance.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous