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Noun: blood-brain barrier
  1. A mechanism that creates a barrier between brain tissues and circulating blood; serves to protect the central nervous system
    "the brain was protected from the large molecules of the virus by the blood-brain barrier"

Derived forms: blood-brain barriers

Type of: barrier

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