Fistula VS Shunt

一切都是從 “Biliary fistula”開始.....

fistula
管,廔管


資料來源(2): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

Fistula \Fis"tu*la\ (?; 135), n.; pl. {Fistul[ae]}. [L.]
1. A reed; a pipe.

2. A pipe for convejing water. [Obs.] --Knight.

3. (Med.) A permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts
with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic
abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity
and another cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula;
an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal fistula.

{Incomplete fistula} (Med.), a fistula open at one end only.

資料來源(3): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

fistula
n 1: a chronic inflammation of the withers of a horse [syn: {fistulous
withers}]
2: an abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the
body surface [syn: {sinus}]
[also: {fistulae} (pl)]




shunt
(vt.)使轉軌,使分流,改變,推延(vi.)轉向一邊,轉軌,往返轉軌,分流

資料來源(2): Taiwan MOE computer dictionary [moecomp]

shunt
分路; 分流; 並聯

資料來源(3): Network Terminology [netterm]

shunt
分路

資料來源(4): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

Shunt \Shunt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shunted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Shunting}.] [Prov. E., to move from, to put off, fr. OE.
shunten, schunten, schounten; cf. D. schuinte a slant, slope,
Icel. skunda to hasten. Cf. {Shun}.]
1. To shun; to move from. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

2. To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to
shove. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Ash.

3. To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a
grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift.

For shunting your late partner on to me. --T.
Hughes.

4. (Elec.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a
galvanometer.

資料來源(5): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

Shunt \Shunt\, n. [Cf. D. schuinte slant, slope, declivity. See
{Shunt}, v. t.]
1. (Railroad) A turning off to a side or short track, that
the principal track may be left free.

2. (Elec.) A conducting circuit joining two points in a
conductor, or the terminals of a galvanometer or dynamo,
so as to form a parallel or derived circuit through which
a portion of the current may pass, for the purpose of
regulating the amount passing in the main circuit.

3. (Gunnery) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from
the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its
discharge from a shunt gun.

{Shunt dynamo} (Elec.), a dynamo in which the field circuit
is connected with the main circuit so as to form a shunt
to the letter, thus employing a portion of the current
from the armature to maintain the field.

{Shunt gun}, a firearm having shunt rifling. See under
{Rifling}.

資料來源(6): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

Shunt \Shunt\, v. i.
To go aside; to turn off.

資料來源(7): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

shunt
n 1: a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is
diverted from one channel to another; "an arteriovenus
shunt"
2: a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another
device to divert a fraction of the current [syn: {electrical
shunt}, {bypass}]
3: implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for
draining fluids within the body
v 1: transfer to another track, of trains
2: provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt

資料來源(8): Internet Dictionary Project [english-italian]

shunt
deviare, smistare, spostare[Verb]


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