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placental barrier

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Main Entry: placental barrier
Function: noun
: a semipermeable membrane made up of placental tissues and limiting the kind and amount of material exchanged between motherand fetus placental barrier and appear in cord blood —Resident & Staff Physician>
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placental barrier n.
The semipermeable layer of tissue in the placenta that serves as a selective membrane to substances passing from maternal to fetal blood.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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