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Blood-brain Barrier

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Noun

1. blood-brain barrier

a mechanism that creates a barrier between brain tissues and circulating blood; serves to protect the central nervous system

Example Sentences:
'the brain was protected from the large molecules of the virus by the blood-brain barrier'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Blood-brain Barrier

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Physiology
the barrier created by the walls of the capillaries of the brain that prevents certain substances, as most proteins and drugs, from passing from the blood into the brain tissue and cerebrospinal fluid

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Blood-brain Barrier

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n.
A physiological mechanism that alters the permeability of brain capillaries, so that some substances, such as certain drugs, are prevented from entering brain tissue, while other substances are allowed to enter freely.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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