blood-brain barrier

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Noun blood-brain barrier has 1 sense

blood-brain barrier - 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"
--₁ is a kind of barrier

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