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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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