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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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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: 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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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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