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: --
He gave me a lift last night because I had a little shunt in my new car.
The accident was his second high-speed shunt.
A shunt was preferred in symptomatic children with annular restriction under 1 year of age.
In symptomatic children not fulfilling requirements of age or size for curative surgery, an aortopulmonary shunt was created as a bridge to definitive therapy.
After release from the guidewire circuit this 'trivial' shunt disappeared immediately in most patients.
At 4 months of age, the percutaneous saturation of oxygen had increased to 86%, and the shunt at atrial level became bi-directional.
There was a large inlet muscular ventricular septal defect, but very little potential for shunting at atrial level.
The slow process causing later occlusion might be due to slow obliteration of the shunt, possibly aggravated by an acute illness.
Complete occlusion or significant shunt reduction could be demonstrated 2-4 weeks after implantation.
One tiny residual shunt is still patent (4 weeks follow-up).
