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Example sentences for "foreign matter"

  • Foreign matter, even after it has got into the veins, may then, by the same means, be prevented from proceeding farther towards the centre of circulation.

  • But in certain cases it is imprudent to attempt extraction of foreign matter; as when a small shot, or other minute substance, has lodged in the interior of the eyeball.

  • The stone in the bladder—whether formed in the kidney, and having descended, or originally concreted in the bladder, either spontaneously or in consequence of the presence of foreign matter—produces very marked and distressing symptoms.

  • Gelatinous precipitates should not be allowed to dry before complete removal of foreign matter is effected.

  • It is obviously incorrect to apply this name to a powder which consists principally of foreign matter.

  • Its density varies according to the quantity of foreign matter which it contains.

  • A still simpler plan is to dissolve out the sulphur in the sample with a little hot oil of turpentine or liquor of potassa; the undissolved portion is foreign matter.

  • It approaches the latter somewhat, indeed, in its nature, since it consists of a dried skin, not combined with any tanning or foreign matter whatever.

  • A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

  • To alter or corrupt by the insertion of new or foreign matter; especially, to change, as a book or text, by the insertion of matter that is new, or foreign to the purpose of the author.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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