foreign body

English

Noun

foreign body (plural foreign bodies)

An unwanted, intruding object or piece of matter.
The foreign body stuck inside the dog's stomach turned out to be a bottle cap.

Synonyms

foreign object (clearly less frequently used)

Translations

unwanted intruding object

Chinese:
Mandarin: 異物 (zh), 异物 (zh) (yìwù)
Danish: fremmedlegeme (da) n
Finnish: vieras esine
French: corps étranger (fr) m
German: Fremdkörper (de) m

Latin: corpus alienum n
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fremmedlegeme n
Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: cuerpo extraño m

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