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shunt

  [shuhnt]
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–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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shunt   (shŭnt)   
n.  

  1. The act or process of turning aside or moving to an alternate course.

  2. A railroad switch.

  3. Electricity A low-resistance connection between two points in an electric circuit that forms an alternative path for a portion of the current. Also called bypass.

  4. Medicine 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.

v.   shunt·ed, shunt·ing, shunts

v.   tr.

  1. To turn or move aside or onto another course: shunting traffic around an accident.

  2. To evade by putting aside or ignoring: urgent problems that society can no longer shunt aside.

  3. To switch (a train or car) from one track to another.

  4. Electricity To provide or divert (current) by means of a shunt.

  5. Medicine To divert or permit flow of (a body fluid) from one pathway or region to another by surgical means.

v.   intr.

  1. To move or turn aside.

  2. Electricity To become diverted by means of a shunt. Used of a circuit.


[Middle English shunten, to flinch.]
shunt'er n.
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Word Origin & History

shunt  (v.)
c.1225, perhaps from shunen "to shun" (see shun). Adopted by railways 1842 as a verb, 1862 as a noun, and by technicians in the sense of "electrical conductor" from 1863. Medical use dates from 1923.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 1shunt
Pronunciation: 'sh&nt
Function: transitive verb
: to divert by or as if by a shunt; especially : to divert(blood) from one part to another by a surgical shunt

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>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

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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