Meaning

noun a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another

noun a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current

noun implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body

originFrom Middle English schonten, schunten (“to jerk, swerve; to dodge, escape”), either: * possibly a back-formation from Middle English schonen (“to avoid, refuse, hate, fear”), from Old English sċunian, sċyniġan; see shun. Or * an alteration of Middle English *schunden, *schynden, from Old English sċyndan, sċendan (“to hasten, hurry”) (as in āsċyndan (“to remove, take away”), from Proto-West…

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