0 to move a train or carriage onto a different track in or near a station using a special railway engine designed for this purpose
1 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:
2 a hole or passage that allows liquid to move from one part of the body to another, either found naturally in the body or put into the body in an operation:
3 a car accident in which one vehicle drives into the back of another:
The accident was his second high-speed shunt.
He gave me a lift last night because I had a little shunt in my new car.
The neurosurgeon can place a shunt to divert spinal fluid under pressure.
The man had had a shunt inserted into his head to drain away fluid.
This was a minor shunt with bent bumpers, not a head-on smash.
I remember when I had my first proper shunt in a racing car.
The race was delayed for more than 30 minutes following a five-car shunt.
Although vasodilatation may improve peripheral blood flow, it may also cause shunting which can result in regional tissue hypoxia.
Furthermore, serum amylase was elevated significantly only in the piglets with left-to-right shunts.
