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Shunt (medical)
Hole or passage within the human body that allows fluids to move throughout it / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In medicine, a shunt is a hole or a small passage that moves, or allows movement of, fluid from one part of the body to another. The term may describe either congenital or acquired shunts; acquired shunts (sometimes referred to as iatrogenic shunts) may be either biological or mechanical.
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