Shunt

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Shunt may refer to:

• Shunt (medical)—a hole or passage allowing fluid to move from one part of the body to another, including:
  • arteriovenous shunt
  • atriocaval shunt
  • Blalock–Taussig shunt
  • cardiac shunt
  • cerebral shunt
  • Cimino shunt
  • distal splenorenal shunt
  • lumbar–peritoneal shunt
  • peritoneovenous shunt
  • portosystemic shunt (also known as a liver shunt)
  • portacaval shunt
  • pulmonary shunt
  • pulmonary-to-systemic shunt
  • right-to-left shunt
  • Sano shunt
  • transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt
• Shunt (electrical)—a device allowing electric current to pass around a point in a circuit, including:
  • Ayrton shunt
  • shunt generator
  • shunt wound motor
  • magnetically controlled shunt reactor
  • shunt regulator
  • variable shunt reactor
• Shunt impedance—a term used in accelerator physics
• Shunt (railway operations)—the process of sorting items of rolling stock into train sets or consists, also called "switching"
  • head shunt
  • shunt platform
• Shunt (sailing) - a maneuver to change the direction of a boat, similar to tacking.
• Shunt (theatre company)—an experimental theatre company based in London
• An alternative metabolic pathway, most commonly used to refer to the hexose monophosphate shunt, which bypasses or runs parallel to glycolysis
• Shunt, a house robot in the TV series Robot Wars