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A blood vessel that provides a direct link between an artery and a vein is a shunt vessel.

For example, shunt vessels connect arterioles and venules in the skin, to cut down heat loss in cold weather.

In surgery, a shunt is a device used to connect two vessels or chambers of the cardiovascular system.

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