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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

foreign object

An item that appears where it does not belong; esp., an item introduced into a living body, such as a sponge that is left in a patient's body during surgery. ( The discovery rule usu. tolls the statute of limitations for a medical-malpractice claim based on a foreign object. - Also termed foreign substance. See FOREIGN SUBSTANCE.