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shunt

UK/ʃʌnt/ US/ʃʌnt/ uncommon informal obsolete uk
noun (3) verb (2)

noun

1.

a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another

  • “an arteriovenus shunt”
2.

a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current

Synonyms
3.

implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body

verb

1.

transfer to another track, of trains

2.

provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt

Origin

From Middle English schonten, schunten (“to jerk, swerve; to dodge, escape”), either: * possibly a back-formation from Middle English schonen (“to avoid, refuse, hate, fear”), from Old English sċunian, sċyniġan; see shun. Or * an alteration of Middle English *schunden, *schynden, from Old English sċyndan, sċendan (“to hasten, hurry”) (as in āsċyndan (“to remove, take away”), from Proto-West Germanic *skundijan, from Proto-Germanic *skundijaną (“to impel, hasten”). * from unrecorded Old English *sċunettan, a derivative of sċunian (“to shun, avoid”). As regards the noun sense, compare Middle English shunt (“swerve; sudden jerk”), derived from the verb.

Phrases

  • Ayrton shunt
  • head shunt
  • transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt
  • universal shunt
  • Wade-Dahl-Till shunt

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