shunt

n.

1. The act or process of turning aside or moving to an alternate course.
2. A railroad switch.
3. Electricity. A low-resistance connection between two points in an electric circuit that forms an alternative path for a portion of the current. Also called bypass.
4. Medicine. 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.

v., shunt·ed, shunt·ing, shunts.

v.tr.

1. To turn or move aside or onto another course: shunting traffic around an accident.
2. To evade by putting aside or ignoring: urgent problems that society can no longer shunt aside.
3. To switch (a train or car) from one track to another.
4. Electricity. To provide or divert (current) by means of a shunt.
5. Medicine. To divert or permit flow of (a body fluid) from one pathway or region to another by surgical means.

v.intr.

1. To move or turn aside.
2. Electricity. To become diverted by means of a shunt. Used of a circuit.

[Middle English shunten, to flinch.]

shunter shunt'er n.

To divert, switch or bypass.

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1. to turn to one side; to divert; to bypass.
2. a passage or anastomosis between two natural channels, especially between blood vessels. Such structures may be formed physiologically (e.g. to bypass a thrombosis), or they may be structural anomalies.
3. a surgical anastomosis.

• arteriovenous (A-V) s. — a U-shaped or straight tube inserted between an artery and a vein (usually between the radial artery and cephalic vein), bypassing the capillary network; commonly done to allow repeated access to the arterial system for the purpose of hemodialysis.
• cardiovascular s. — an abnormality of the blood flow between the sides of the heart or between the systemic and pulmonary circulation; see left-to-right shunt (below) and right-to-left shunt (below).
• left-to-right s. — diversion of blood from the left side of the heart to the right side, or from the systemic to the pulmonary circulation through an anomalous opening such as a septal defect or patent ductus arteriosus.
• LeVeen s. — a device whose purpose is to remove excess ascitic fluid from the peritoneal cavity and return it to the venous system. Called also peritoneal-venous shunt.
• peritoneal-venous s. — see LeVeen shunt (above).
• pleuroperitoneal s. — a catheter placed to transfer pleural fluid into the peritoneal cavity; requires manual pumping.
• portacaval s., postcaval s. — see portacaval shunt.
• reversed s. — right-to-left shunt.
• right-to-left s. — diversion of blood from the right side of the heart to the left side or from the pulmonary to the systemic circulation through an anomalous opening such as septal defect or patent ductus arteriosus.
• ventriculovenous s. — a surgical procedure used in the treatment of hydrocephalus.

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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - shunte, lede ind på et sidespor
v. intr. - komme ind på et sidespor
n. - shunt, sporskifte

Nederlands (Dutch)
verplaatsen, aftakken, aftakking, spoorwissel

Français (French)
v. tr. - expédier, (fig) expédier, (Rail) aiguiller
v. intr. - changer de voie
n. - (Méd, Électron) shunt

Deutsch (German)
v. - rangieren, abschieben
n. - Rangieren, Nebenwiderstand, operative Umlenkung einer Ader, (Slang) Zusammenstoß

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - (παρ)ωθώ, εκτρέπω, διακλαδίζω, παρεκβαίνω
n. - κλειδί διακλάδωσης (σιδηροτροχιάς), διακλαδωτήρας, (ηλεκτρ.) διακλάδωση, (καθομ.) σύγκρουση σε αυτοκινητόδρομο

Italiano (Italian)
spostare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - desviar, manobrar, derivar (Eletr.)
n. - desvio (m), colisão (f) de veículos

Русский (Russian)
переключение, перевод на запасной путь, параллельное включение, ж-д стрелка, передвигать, отодвигаться, передавать, отпихивать, избавляться, маневрировать, параллельно включать

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - desviar, cambiar de vía, poner a un lado, apartar
v. intr. - desviarse, torcer, cambiar de pensamiento
n. - desviación, desvío, derivación

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - växla, shunta, skjuta undan, skuffa undan, sätta på undantag, leda över, fösa omkring
n. - växling, shunt, kollision, krock

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
使转轨, 改变, 使分流, 转轨, 来回运行, 转向一边, 分流

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 使轉軌, 改變, 使分流
v. intr. - 轉軌, 來回運行, 轉向一邊
n. - 轉軌, 分流

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 옆으로 밀어내다, (차량을) 측선에 넣다, (자동차를) 충돌시키다
v. intr. - 한쪽으로 비키다, 대피하다, 왕복하다
n. - 분로, 전환, 분류기

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 入れ換える, 分路をつくる, 変える, 討議を回避する, わきにそれる, 入れ換わる
n. - わきへ向けること, 分路

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يتخلص من, يحول وبخاصه قطارا من خط أل آخر (الاسم) مجزيء ألتيار ألكهربائي, تحوله وبخاصه ألسكه ألحديديه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮עיתק, העביר, הסיט, שם בצד, השתיל מעקף (כירורגיה), הפנה‬
v. intr. - ‮עבר למסילה צדדית‬
n. - ‮עיתוק, הפניה, העברה‬

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