foreign body

English

Noun

foreign body (plural foreign bodies)

1. 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 (less common)

Translations

unwanted intruding object

• Catalan: cos estrany m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 異物／异物 (zh) (yìwù)

• Danish: fremmedlegeme (da) n
• Finnish: vieras esine, (medicine) vierasesine (fi)
• French: corps étranger (fr) m
• German: Fremdkörper (de) m
• Latin: corpus alienum n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fremmedlegeme n

• Portuguese: corpo estranho m
• Romanian: corp străin (ro) n
• Russian: иноро́дное те́ло n (inoródnoje télo)
• Spanish: cuerpo extraño m
• Vietnamese: vật thể lạ