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  • shunt in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shunt may refer to: Shunt (medical), a hole or passage allowing fluid to move from one part of the body to another...
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    Blalock–Thomas–Taussig shunt (BTT shunt), previously known as the Blalock-Taussig Shunt (BT shunt), is a surgical procedure used to increase blood flow to the lungs...
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    or acquired shunts; acquired shunts (sometimes referred to as iatrogenic shunts) may be either biological or mechanical. Cardiac shunts may be described...
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  • A cardiac shunt is a pattern of blood flow in the heart that deviates from the normal circuit of the circulatory system. It may be described as right-left...
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  • A peritoneovenous shunt (also called LeVeen Shunt) is a shunt which drains peritoneal fluid from the peritoneum into veins, usually the internal jugular...
    1,010 bytes (91 words) - 21:40, 7 September 2015
  • A shunt is a device that is designed to provide a low-resistance path for an electrical current in a circuit. It is typically used to divert current away...
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    cerebral shunt is a device permanently implanted inside the head and body to drain excess fluid away from the brain. They are commonly used to treat hydrocephalus...
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  • A pulmonary shunt is the passage of deoxygenated blood from the right side of the heart to the left without participation in gas exchange in the pulmonary...
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  • Look up shunting in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shunting may refer to: Ribosome shunting, a mechanism in protein biosynthesis Shunting (rail), a...
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    phosphogluconate pathway and the hexose monophosphate shunt and the HMP Shunt) is a metabolic pathway parallel to glycolysis. It generates NADPH and pentoses (5-carbon...
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  • A right-to-left shunt is a cardiac shunt which allows blood to flow from the right heart to the left heart. This terminology is used both for the abnormal...
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  • A portacaval shunt, portocaval shunt, or portal-caval shunt is a treatment for portal hypertension. A connection (a shunt) is made between the portal vein...
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  • The Shunt equation (also known as the Berggren equation) quantifies the extent to which venous blood bypasses oxygenation in the capillaries of the lung...
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    Shunt nephritis is a rare disease of the kidney that can occur in patients being treated for hydrocephalus with a cerebral shunt. It usually results from...
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    The Ayrton shunt or universal shunt is a high-resistance shunt used in galvanometers to increase their range without changing the damping. The circuit...
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    A Sano shunt is a shunt from the right ventricle to the pulmonary circulation. In contrast to a Blalock–Taussig shunt, circulation is primarily in systole...
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    Hydrocephalus (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    surgical placement of a shunt system. A procedure called a third ventriculostomy is an option in some people. Complications from shunts may include overdrainage...
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    readily taken up by microorganisms. The DOM recycled by the viral shunt pathway is comparable to the amount generated by the other main sources of marine DOM...
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    A shunt generator is a type of electric generator in which field winding and armature winding are connected in parallel, and in which the armature supplies...
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  • Thumbnail for Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt
    Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS or TIPSS) is an artificial channel within the liver that establishes communication between the inflow...
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