0 present participle of shunt
1 to move a train or carriage onto a different track in or near a station using a special railway engine designed for this purpose
2 to move someone or something from one place to another, usually because that person or thing is not wanted, and without considering any unpleasant effects:
Although vasodilatation may improve peripheral blood flow, it may also cause shunting which can result in regional tissue hypoxia.
In view of residual shunting, another cardiac catheterization was undertaken.
Reported is a patient who was persistently mildly cyanosed due to diastolic right-to-left shunting.
Echocardiography showed normal chamber and vessel relationships, a small patent arterial duct, and an atrial septal defect with bidirectional shunting across the oval fossa.
The shapes of the profiles during normal and shunting conditions are similar, with more negative values obtained in die posterior section.
In such patients, the interventricular defect is usually small, and shunting is limited by tendinous cords tethering the bridging leaflets.
There was a large inlet muscular ventricular septal defect, but very little potential for shunting at atrial level.
This might be achieved through a simple cellular mechanism such as increasing and decreasing levels of shunting inhibition.
