Assertion: shunt | /r/HasProperty | passage
Facets:
value: in medicine
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In medicine, a shunt is a hole or passage which moves, or allows movement of, fluid from one part of the body to another.
text: Also called bypass and withmedicine, 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.