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a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another; "an arteriovenus shunt" a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current transfer to another track, of trains implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt
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A surgeon implants or creates a shunt to move blood or other fluid from one part of the body to another part. For example, a surgeon may implant a tube to drain cerebrospinal fluid from the brain to the abdomen. A surgeon may also change normal blood flow by joining two blood vessels together.
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an artificially constructed or an abnormal passage connecting two usually separate structures in the body
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A tube used to drain a cavity. In the spinal cord, a shunt is used to treat a syrinx by equalizing pressures between the syrinx and the spinal fluids. In spinal bifida, it is used to reduce pressure of hydrocephalus.
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A surgically created diversion of fluid (eg, blood or cerebrospinal fluid) from one area of the body to another area of the body.
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