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Shunt vs Silastic - What's the difference?

shunt | silastic |

As a verb shunt

is to turn away or aside.

As a noun shunt

is a switch on a railway.

As a proper noun Silastic is

a type of flexible, inert silicone rubber, used especially in prosthetic medicine to make devices such as shunts to control hydrocephalus, artificial heart valves and breast implants.

shunt

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) To turn away or aside.
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
  • (Ash)
  • To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages etc from one train to another.
  • To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.
  • To divert the flow of a body fluid using surgery.
  • To move data in memory to a physical disk.
  • (informal, British) To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
  • To provide with a shunt.
  • to shunt a galvanometer

    Noun

    (wikipedia shunt) (en noun)
  • A switch on a railway
  • A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electric circuit
  • A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass
  • (informal, British) A minor collision
  • (firearms) 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.
  • Anagrams

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    silastic

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A type of flexible, inert silicone rubber, used especially in prosthetic medicine to make devices such as shunts to control hydrocephalus, artificial heart valves and breast implants.