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Example sentences for "foreign body"

  • The combination is complicated, and approaches more nearly the methods employed by Man when the animal makes use of a foreign body, as a tool or as a fulcrum, to achieve his objects.

  • It is a foreign body which he takes up, and it is an intended victim at which he takes aim and which he strikes; his movements are admirably co-ordinated to obtain a precise effect.

  • Sometimes the body has excited a little irritation, which feels like a foreign body.

  • People not infrequently complain of a foreign body when it has already been removed by natural means.

  • A foreign body may be coughed up from the lung into the trachea and fall backward into the opposite lung.

  • This would die anyway, and prove a foreign body, and would be very apt to cause pus.

  • They often begin through a rubbing of the cornea by a foreign body.

  • If there is a foreign body in the cornea, clean instruments should be used to remove it.

  • At first they cause a feeling of swelling at the margin of the anus; but as the clot becomes larger and harder, there is a feeling of the presence of a foreign body in the lower part of the anal canal (or canal of the anus).

  • Both represent the results of a deposition in and upon organic material, which is often an inflammatory product, at times surrounding a foreign body acting as the exciting cause of the inflammation.

  • An embolus is a foreign body in a blood-vessel, usually too large to pass through the smallest capillaries, and the disturbances resulting from its presence are included under the term embolism.

  • The Röntgen rays are useful in determining the presence and position of a foreign body.

  • It also favours the inclusion in the wound of a foreign body, such as the broken point of a knife, or a piece of glass.

  • The protrusion is due to increased intra-cranial tension, and is almost invariably associated with infection of the brain and its membranes, and with the presence of a foreign body or fragments of bone.

  • Sometimes a foreign body left in the gap so fills it up that it is difficult to detect the fracture with a probe or even with the finger.

  • If the presence of such a foreign body is recognized, it may be removed by a difficult surgical operation, or, as is usually most economical, the animal may be killed for beef, if there is no fever.

  • This is very effectual in small vessels, and is to be preferred to ligatures, because it leaves no foreign body in the wound.

  • Tuberculosis or ulceration from other causes, such as a foreign body, is the most common source of this accident.

  • This disease results from the presence of a foreign body.

  • Then, again, if food be introduced in excess of the digestive capacity, the undigested portion acts directly upon the stomach as a foreign body, and in undergoing decomposition and putrefying changes frets and irritates the mucous membrane.

  • Under these circumstances the blood may be regarded as a kind of foreign body.

  • Sometimes it is due to impaction of a foreign body; sometimes there is no mechanical impediment; occasionally it is observed as a congenital anomaly.

  • Sometimes it can be traced to a fear of strangulation, induced primarily by some accidental impediment to deglutition or the entrance of a foreign body.

  • In many cases the periosteum, as about any form of foreign body, then begins to proliferate and forms a shell of periosteal bone surrounding the tumor.

  • In sapremia the causative condition is putrid material lodged like a foreign body in the tissues.

  • After the knife has been withdrawn, the point of the electro-magnet is inserted and the circuit closed, the magnet being withdrawn with the foreign body attached to it.

  • The tendency for a foreign body, whether hard like forceps, or soft like gauze pads, to erode its way into the intestine is very remarkable.

  • If a foreign body be present in the eye and be magnetizable, the patient will usually withdraw his head or cry out with pain, and the foreign body may be seen bulging forward the iris from the posterior chamber.

  • If upon examination, no foreign body is found, we must then carefully examine each tooth.

  • Perhaps the most common cause of this complication is the presence of a foreign body in the lung, as food particles or medicine.

  • It should be quickly ascertained whether or not a foreign body remains in the wound; then it should be thoroughly cleaned with a solution of carbolic acid, 1 part in 40 parts of water.

  • Gazdar speaks, of a case of persistent neuralgia of one-half of the face, caused by a foreign body in the nose.

  • When he saw the child it complained of all the pain in the right ear, and he naturally examined this ear first but found nothing to indicate the presence of a foreign body.

  • The primary lesion may thus act as "a foreign body in consciousness.

  • Palpebral tics are among those that ordinarily begin by a spasmodic reaction to an extraneous source of irritation, such as that yielded by a foreign body, a speck of dust, an eyelash, or by any form of conjunctival inflammation.

  • Source of irritation is absent, yet the patient scratches himself; he blinks, but no foreign body is to be detected in his eye.

  • It may be a foreign body, such as a piece of dead bone, an infected ligature, or a bullet, acting mechanically or by keeping up discharge, and if the body is removed the sinus usually heals.

  • Mandrins are obtainable, but their use is objectionable for a number of reasons, chief of which is the danger of overriding a foreign body or a lesion, or of perforating a lesion, or even the normal esophageal wall.

  • At the left is shown a handle-clamp for locking the forceps on a foreign body in the solution of certain rarely encountered mechanical problems.

  • To hold a foreign body by suction, a squarely cut off end is necessary.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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