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The term given to items negligently left in a human body from surgery or those introduced into the human body by other means. The term is also used to denote objects not belonging where they are found such as an alleged finding of a finger in one’s chili. The significance is that the statute of limitations is tolled until discovery of the item which means actual discovery or that point in time in which it would have been discovered by a reasonable person.
