protective covering
Example Sentences
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Normally, barriers exist within the protective covering of the brain, called the meninges, to prevent unwanted spillage into the brain.
From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2023
An MRI found spots in his brain and spinal cord where something had attacked the protective covering on the nerves.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2022
If the egg develops outside the body, it usually has a protective covering over it.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
One of the last jobs for engineers ahead of lift-off was to hoist Webb atop its rocket and then enclose it behind a protective covering, or fairing.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2021
The most important of these in pyemia is a break in continuity of the protective covering, as a wound, which affords an entrance into the tissues for the organisms.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
