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by⋅pass

  [bahy-pas, -pahs] noun, verb, -passed or (Rare) -past; -passed or -past; -pass⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
2. a secondary pipe or other channel connected with a main passage, as for conducting a liquid or gas around a fixture, pipe, or appliance.
3. Electricity. shunt (def. 9).
4. a surgical procedure in which a diseased or obstructed hollow organ is temporarily or permanently circumvented. Compare coronary bypass, gastric bypass, heart-lung machine, intestinal bypass.
–verb (used with object)
5. to avoid (an obstruction, city, etc.) by following a bypass.
6. to cause (fluid or gas) to follow a secondary pipe or bypass.
7. to neglect to consult or to ignore the opinion or decision of: He bypassed the foreman and took his grievance straight to the owner.
Also, by-pass.

Origin:
1840–50; appar. back formation from by-passage; see by 1 (adj.), passage 1

Related forms:
bypasser, by-passer, noun
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shunt

  [shuhnt]
–verb (used with object)
1. to shove or turn (someone or something) aside or out of the way.
2. to sidetrack; get rid of.
3. Electricity.
a. to divert (a part of a current) by connecting a circuit element in parallel with another.
b. to place or furnish with a shunt.
4. Railroads. to shift (rolling stock) from one track to another; switch.
5. Surgery.
a. to divert blood or other fluid by means of a shunt.
b. the tube itself.
6. to move or turn aside or out of the way.
7. (of a locomotive with rolling stock) to move from track to track or from point to point, as in a railroad yard; switch.
–noun
8. the act of shunting; shift.
9. Also called bypass. Electricity. a conducting element bridged across a circuit or a portion of a circuit, establishing a current path auxiliary to the main circuit, as a resistor placed across the terminals of an ammeter for increasing the range of the device.
10. a railroad switch.
11. Surgery. a channel through which blood or other bodily fluid is diverted from its normal path by surgical reconstruction or by a synthetic tube.
12. Anatomy. an anastomosis.
–adjective
13. Electricity. being, having, or operating by means of a shunt: a shunt circuit; a shunt generator.
Origin:
1175–1225; (v.) ME schunten, shonten to shy (said of horses); (n.) ME, deriv. of the v.; akin to shun

Related forms:
shunter, noun
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by·pass also by-pass   (bī'pās')   
n.  

  1. A highway or section of a highway that passes around an obstructed or congested area.

  2. A pipe or channel used to conduct gas or liquid around another pipe or a fixture.

  3. A means of circumvention.

  4. Electricity See shunt.

  5. Medicine

    1. An alternative passage created surgically to divert the flow of blood or other bodily fluid or circumvent an obstructed or diseased organ.

    2. A surgical procedure to create such a channel: a coronary artery bypass; a gastric bypass.

tr.v.   by·passed also by-passed, by·pass·ing also by-pass·ing, by·pass·es also by-pass·es

  1. To avoid (an obstacle) by using an alternative channel, passage, or route.

  2. To be heedless of; ignore: bypassed standard office procedures.

  3. To channel (piped liquid, for example) through a bypass.

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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: by·pass
Pronunciation: 'bI-"pas
Function: noun
: a surgically established shunt bypass of blood from the rightatrium to the aorta>; also : a surgical procedure for the establishment of a shunt —see CORONARYBYPASS, JEJUNOILEAL BYPASS —bypass transitive verb

Main Entry: 2shunt
Function: noun
1 : a passage by which a bodily fluid (as blood) is diverted from one channel, circulatory path, or part to another;especially : such a passage established by surgery or occurring as an abnormality shunt>
2 a : a surgical procedure for theestablishment of an artificial shunt —see PORTACAVAL SHUNT b : a device (as a narrow tube) usedto establish an artificial shunt shunts have been used to bypass temporarily sections of major arteries —Johnson McGuire & Arnold Iglauer>
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bypass by·pass (bī'pās')
n.

  1. A passage created surgically to divert the flow of blood or other bodily fluid or to circumvent an obstructed or diseased organ.

  2. A surgical procedure to create such a channel.

shunt (shŭnt)
n.
A passage between two natural body channels, such as blood vessels, especially one created surgically to divert or permit flow from one pathway or region to another; a bypass.

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A passage created surgically to divert the flow of blood or other bodily fluid or to circumvent an obstructed or diseased organ.
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