shunt

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For a shunt, they make an incision behind the ear and in the stomach, and use a metal rod to put a wire tube under the skin from the stomach to the neck into the brain, so the fluid can flow normally from the brain to the stomach.

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  1. noun The act or process of turning aside or moving to an alternate course.
  2. noun A railroad switch.
  3. noun 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.
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  • A shunt is a separate wire that completes the connection if a battery or timer wire is cut in an attempt to render the bomb safe. —  The Coffin Dancer
  • The only point of a shunt is to make rendering safe tougher. —  The Coffin Dancer
  • He reached in to grab her hand, where the shunt was, and noticed her face. —  Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
  • When we make our next shunt, the stardrive will behave exactly as we want it to behave, and you all know it. —  Starborne
  • A shunt is a drainage device that runs from the brain to the abdomen to relieve excess cerebrospinal fluid. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
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  1. Middle English shunten, to flinch.

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  1. from Middle English shunten, schunten, schonten, shounten, schounten, schownten, start aside; prob. a variant (due to some interference, perhaps association with shoten, sheten, shoot, or shutten, shut) of shunden, which is itself prob. a variant (due to association with shun) of *shinden (cf. shutten, variant of shitten, shut), from Anglo-Saxon scyndan, hasten (in comp. ā-scyndan, take away, remove), =Old High German scuntan, urge on, =Icelandic skynda, skunda =Norwegian skunda =Swedish skynda =Danish skynde, hasten, hurry, speed; prob. connected (at least later so regarded) with shun: see shun.
  2. from Middle English schunt; from shunt, v.
 

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