Shunt vs. Fistula

Shuntverb

(transitive) To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to.

Shuntverb

(transitive) To divert to a less important place, position, or state.

Shuntverb

(transitive) To provide with a shunt.

Shuntverb

To move data in memory to a physical disk.

Shuntverb

To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.

Shuntverb

To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages, etc. from one train to another.

Shuntverb

To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.

Shuntverb

To divert the flow of a body fluid.

Shuntverb

To turn aside or away; to divert.

Shuntnoun

An act of moving (suddenly), as due to a push or shove.

Shuntnoun

(electricity) A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electrical circuit.

Shuntnoun

(firearms) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.

Shuntnoun

An abnormal passage between body channels.

Shuntnoun

(surgery) A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass; a tube inserted into the body to create such a passage.

Shuntnoun

(rail transport) A switch on a railway used to move a train from one track to another.

Shuntnoun

A minor collision between vehicles.

Shuntverb

To shun; to move from.

Shuntverb

To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.

Shuntverb

To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift.

Shuntverb

To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.

Shuntverb

To go aside; to turn off.

Shuntnoun

A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.

Shuntnoun

A conducting circuit joining two points in a conductor, or the terminals of a galvanometer or dynamo, so as to form a parallel or derived circuit through which a portion of the current may pass, for the purpose of regulating the amount passing in the main circuit.

Shuntnoun

The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.

Shuntnoun

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

Shuntnoun

a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current

Shuntnoun

implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body

Shuntverb

transfer to another track, of trains

Shuntverb

provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt

Fistulanoun

(medicine) An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect.

Fistulanoun

(rare) A tube, a pipe, or a hole.

Fistulanoun

The tube through which the wine of the Eucharist was once sucked from the chalice.

Fistulanoun

A reed; a pipe.

Fistulanoun

A pipe for convejing water.

Fistulanoun

A permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and another cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal fistula.

Fistulanoun

a chronic inflammation of the withers of a horse

Fistulanoun

an abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface

Fistula

A fistula (plural: fistulas or fistulae ; from Latin fistula, ) is an abnormal connection between two hollow spaces (technically, two epithelialized surfaces), such as blood vessels, intestines, or other hollow organs.Types of fistula can be described by their location. Anal fistulas connect between the anal canal and the perianal skin.