shunt
shuhnt
- n a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another
an arteriovenus shunt - n a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
- n implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body
- v transfer to another track, of trains
- v provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt
- Hospital bosses say doctors, who wield huge influence over their patients, steer the most profitable procedures to facilities they own and shunt the least lucrative ones to the .
- Over his long life he has endured some serious medical crises; he now has Parkinson's disease and prostate cancer and a shunt to drain excess water from his brain.
- One likely reason could be his heart; last October, Kennedy underwent surgery to clear blockages in his left carotid artery, one of two major blood vessels in the neck that shunt .