arteriovenous shunt

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The passage of blood directly from arteries to veins, without going through the capillary network.

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You know, like Nixon tried to shunt responsibility for the break-in on to Liddy, Sturgis, et al.
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In place of a shunt, the voltmeter uses a coil of wire of high resistance (see R, Fig. 249) in series with the galvanometer coil.
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In other words a voltmeter is connected in shunt, while an ammeter is in series with the circuit as is shown in Fig. 250.
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When two or more conductors are connected in parallel each one is said to be a shunt of the others.
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The shunt wound dynamo (see Fig. 286) sends a part only of the current produced through the field coils.
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