What is "foreign body"

Foreign \For"eign\, a. [OE. forein, F. forain, LL. foraneus, fr. L. foras, foris, out of doors, abroad, without; akin to fores doors, and E. door. See Door, and cf. Foreclose, Forfeit, Forest, Forum.]

1. Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government. ``Foreign worlds.''
   --Milton.

2. Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits. ``Domestic and foreign writers.''
   --Atterbury.

   Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed.
   --Milton.

3. Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature.

   This design is not foreign from some people's thoughts.
   --Swift.

4. Held at a distance; excluded; exiled. [Obs.]

   Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him, That he ran mad and died.
   --Shak.

   Foreign attachment (Law), a process by which the property of a foreign or absent debtor is attached for the satisfaction of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an attachment of the goods, effects, or credits of a debtor in the hands of a third person; -- called in some States trustee, in others factorizing, and in others garnishee process.
   --Kent.
   --Tomlins.
   --Cowell.

   Foreign bill, a bill drawn in one country, and payable in another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is one drawn and payable in the same country. In this latter, as well as in several other points of view, the different States of the United States are foreign to each other. See Exchange, n., 4.
   --Kent.
   --Story.

   Foreign body (Med.), a substance occurring in any part of the body where it does not belong, and usually introduced from without.

   Foreign office, that department of the government of Great Britain which has charge British interests in foreign countries.

   Syn: Outlandish; alien; exotic; remote; distant; extraneous; extrinsic.

n. An unwanted, intruding object or piece of matter.

A foreign body or sometimes known as FB (Latin: corpus alienum) is any object originating outside the body. In machinery, it can mean any unwanted intruding object.

Most references to foreign bodies involve propulsion through natural orifices into hollow organs.

Foreign bodies can be inert or irritating. If they irritate they will cause inflammation and scarring. They can bring infection into the body or acquire infectious agents and protect them from the body's immune defenses. They can obstruct passageways either by their size or by the scarring they cause. Some can be toxic.

With sufficient force (as in firing of bullets), a foreign body can become lodged into nearly any tissue.

A foreign body, in physiology, any object originating outside a human or animal body.

The terms foreign body, foreign bodies, or foreign object may also refer to:

Foreign Body was a 2008 webseries coproduced by the production companies Vuguru (owned by former Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner), Cyber Group Studios (owned by the former Walt Disney executives Dominique Bourse and Pierre Sissmann), and Big Fantastic (owned by the creators of the web television series SamHas7Friends and Prom Queen). The series, which ran from May 27 through August 4, 2008, comprised 50 episodes of approximately 2 minutes each, with a new video posted every weekday.

The series was a prequel and promotion for the Robin Cook novel of the same name, which was released on August 5, 2008, the day after the series finale. Portions of the series shot in India, and it cost a reported $10,000 per episode to create.

Foreign Body is a 1986 British romantic comedy film directed by Ronald Neame and adapted from the 1975 Roderick Mann novel of the same name. The film stars Victor Banerjee, Warren Mitchell, Denis Quilley, and Amanda Donohoe. It was Neame's final film.

Foreign Body is a collaborative album of Tiny Vipers and Grouper under their common moniker Mirrorring. It was released on March 19th, 2012 on Kranky Records.