The phrase "a foreign surface" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing materials, textures, or environments that are not native or familiar to a particular subject or entity.
Example: "The artist was inspired by the patterns found on a foreign surface, which added an exotic touch to her work."
Alternatives: "an unfamiliar surface" or "a non-native surface".
Exposure to a foreign surface sets off a series of chemical reactions.
Grass is a foreign surface to players like Kudla and Sock, who have grown up being drilled on hard courts.
I want you to just sort of understand the concept, that a protein in the blood gets activated by exposure to a foreign surface.
Instead of treating the mats like a foreign surface, neurons take well to the nanotubes, says Todd Pappas, director of sensory and molecular neuroengineering at the University of Texas Medical Branch, who led the research.
A biofilm is a community of cells that aggregates and colonizes a foreign surface (Blankenship and Mitchell 2006).
More sophisticated approaches involving heterogeneous nucleation, where a foreign surface is present that can interact with the crystallizing material in solution are emerging.
A third example of how conscious and deliberate resource restrictions can stimulate creativity can be found in the famous Van Gogh-Gauguin collaboration in Arles, when both artists decided to paint on jute, a medium that neither had ever worked with before, in a deliberate effort to stimulate new ideas by having to tackle a completely foreign surface.
Due to a reduced foreign surface area and avoidance of blood-air contact, MEPS is associated with lower systemic inflammatory response than CCPB [ 1].
A reduced foreign surface contact area, elimination of blood/air interface by omitting the venous reservoir, and a lower priming volume are some of the reasons for these benefits [ 1].
The small size of this device with reduced foreign surface combined with heparin-coating, a plasma-resistant membrane and improved pump technology decreases the need for systemic anticoagulation.
In the last two years, the plant lost two other big jobs: when the postal service stopped offering foreign surface mail shipments, which traveled by ship; and when the handling of the military mail headed to Iraq and Afghanistan was outsourced to a private contractor in Newark.
