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noun

shunt

a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another

In a sentence

Six example sentences with shunt, each labelled with its topic.

  • Surgeons placed a shunt to carry excess fluid from the brain down to the abdomen, and the headaches stopped.

    Medicine

  • A frog's heart uses a shunt that sends some returning blood straight back out without visiting the lungs.

    Science

  • Doctors cleared the swimmer to train again once her shunt kept spinal fluid moving normally during hard sets.

    Fitness

  • The first reliable shunt was designed in 1955 by an engineer whose infant son needed fluid drained from his brain.

    History

  • The newest shunt carries a tiny valve that surgeons adjust with a magnet held against the skin, no operation needed.

    Technology

  • The startup's sensor sits beside a shunt and warns parents by phone the moment fluid stops flowing through it.

    Startups

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