by·pass,
also by-pass
(bī́păś)
noun
- A highway or section of a highway that passes around an obstructed or congested area.
- A pipe or channel used to conduct gas or liquid around another pipe or a fixture.
- A means of circumvention.
- Electricity See shunt
- Medicine
- An alternative passage created surgically to divert the flow of blood or other bodily fluid or circumvent an obstructed or diseased organ.
- A surgical procedure to create such a channel: a coronary artery bypass; a gastric bypass.
transitive verb: -passed, also -passed, -pass·ing, -pass·ing, -pass·es, -pass·es
- To avoid (an obstacle) by using an alternative channel, passage, or route.
- To be heedless of; ignore: bypassed standard office procedures.
- To channel (piped liquid, for example) through a bypass.
shunt
(shŭnt)
[Middle English shunten, to flinch.]
noun
- The act or process of turning aside or moving to an alternate course.
- A railroad switch.
- Electricity A low-resistance connection between two points in an electric circuit that forms an alternative path for a portion of the current. Also called bypass
- Medicine A passage between two natural body channels, such as blood vessels, especially one created surgically to divert or permit flow from one pathway or region to another; a bypass.
verb: shunt·ed, shunt·ing, shunts.
transitive verb
- To turn or move aside or onto another course: shunting traffic around an accident.
- To evade by putting aside or ignoring: urgent problems that society can no longer shunt aside.
- To switch (a train or car) from one track to another.
- Electricity To provide or divert (current) by means of a shunt.
- Medicine To divert or permit flow of (a body fluid) from one pathway or region to another by surgical means.
intransitive verb
- To move or turn aside.
- Electricity To become diverted by means of a shunt. Used of a circuit.
derivatives
- shunt́er
- noun
