shunt
vt : to divert by or as if by a shunt : esp : to divert (blood) from one part to another by a surgical shunt , n 1 : a passage by which a bodily fluid (as blood) is diverted from one channel, circulatory path, or part to another : esp : such a passage established by surgery or occurring as an abnormality <an arteriovenous > 2 a : a surgical procedure for the establishment of an artificial shunt - see PORTACAVAL SHUNT b : a device (as a narrow tube) used to establish an artificial shunt <plastic s have been used to bypass temporarily sections of major arteries -Johnson McGuire & Arnold Iglauer> .
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