shunts in English

noun

1

an act of pushing or shoving something.

The countless mini-roundabouts popping up where there just simply isn't room for a roundabout is another danger, increasing the number of small shunts & bumps.

2

an electrical conductor joining two points of a circuit, through which more or less of a current may be diverted.

One indication is a shunt or a short circuit of a medium between the common control element and the devices.

verb

1

push or pull (a train or part of a train) from the main line to a siding or from one track to another.

their train had been shunted into a siding

2

provide (an electrical current) with a conductor joining two points of a circuit, through which more or less of the current may be diverted.

noun

bypass

Use "shunts" in a sentence

1. Arteriovenous shunts in the liver are associated with a high mortality rate

2. Clinically significant Arteriovenous shunts result in high-output heart failure

3. Neurosurgical implants — Sterile, single-use hydrocephalus shunts and components (ISO 7197:2006)

4. Neurosurgical implants — Sterile, single-use hydrocephalus shunts and components (ISO 7197:2006, including Cor 1:2007)

5. Coagulopathy is a well recognised complication after the insertion of these shunts.

6. "Driving element" here includes any necessary accessory resistors, inductors and shunts. Note (2):

7. Additionally the amplifier has a lower noise figure when the second passive filter shunts the transconductor.

8. Arteriovenous shunts are abnormal connections between coronary arteries and a compartment of the venous side of the heart

9. Oxygen breathing is effective in cases of alveolo-capillary block syndrome; in cases of functional shunts its value depends on the extent of the ventilated areas of the lung.

10. Preferably, each of the active shunts is an active switching device, such as a power MOSFET, a bipolar transistor, or a micro-relay, that has a low on-resistance.

11. Subsequently, he used such shunts, made of glass, as well as his canister-enclosed dialyzer, to treat 1,500 patients in renal failure between 1946 and 1960, as reported to the First International Congress of Nephrology held in Evian in September 1960.

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13. This relationship was determined in 20 subjects with coronary heart disease and in 6 subjects judged to be without heart disease, utilizing catheter-tip manometry and determination of diastolic volume change.DV was taken as stroke volume in the absence of intracardiac shunts and valvular regurgitation as demonstrated by angiocardiography.

14. Calibration services, in particular for voltmeters and power meters (AC/DC), clip-on ammeters, resistance decades, multimeters, multi-range meters,electric capacities, ohmmeters, measuring shunts and single resistances, resistance bridges, current and voltage converters, high-voltage and earthed conductor testing apparatus, recorders, mains apparatus, oscilloscopes, temperature and humidity measuring apparatus, revolution counters

15. Forty children with CHD were studied: ten children with no interchamber communication and normal pulmonary blood flow (PBF) (normal group); ten acyanotic children with increased PBF (acyanotic-shunting group); ten cyanotic children with mixing type lesions and normal or increased PBF (mixing group), and ten cyanotic children with right-to-left intracardiac shunts demonstrating decreased and variable PBF (cyanotic-shunting group).

16. The higher f H before long dives will allow sea lions to ensure blood and muscle are fully loaded with O 2 before the initiation of a dive, and may facilitate the possible use of a–v shunts to Arterialise venous blood, thereby maximising the amount of O 2 they are able to take down on a dive (McDonald and Ponganis, 2013).