Reader's Digest 9月号のThe Whole Family Guide To A Healthy Heartと題された記事から引用します。
By the time Neelam Jain's heart condition was finally diagnosed, she was in bad shape. She had one thing going for her, though: Because she'd kept herself active, her body had been silently compensating for the gradual obstruction of her blood vessels by shunting blood to smaller veins.
shunt" は、私が働いている会社の取り扱い商品の一つに "current shunt"（電流分流器/分路器）があるので三年前に知った単語です。電気の専門用語と思っていたのですが、同じ様な意味で医学でも使われているのですね。 辞書での説明を見ます。
・V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary:
Definition: (n.) 1. the act of pushing to the side or diverting to an alternate course; 2. a bypass or diversion of bodily fluid (in medicine); (v.) 1. to divert or transfer (as in trains on a track); 2. to avoid responsibility by shifting it to someone else; 3. to move somebody or something from one place to another
Tips: Shunt means "to cast aside or move something to an alternate course." Shunt is often used when referring to railroad switches or in medicine, when a passage that diverts the flow of blood or other bodily fluid form one channel to another is created in surgery. In the definition of moving someone or something, shunt is used in the context of convenience or necessity, rather than kindness. Shunt can also be used to denote the diversion of an electrical current.
由来をOnline Etymologyで見ると：
early 13c., perhaps from shunen "to shun ". Adopted by railways 1842 as a verb, 1862 as a noun, and by technicians in the sense of "electrical conductor" from 1863. Medical use dates from 1923.
鉄道で最初に使われ、電気そして医学にも使われる様になった単語でした。
By the time Neelam Jain's heart condition was finally diagnosed, she was in bad shape. She had one thing going for her, though: Because she'd kept herself active, her body had been silently compensating for the gradual obstruction of her blood vessels by shunting blood to smaller veins.
shunt" は、私が働いている会社の取り扱い商品の一つに "current shunt"（電流分流器/分路器）があるので三年前に知った単語です。電気の専門用語と思っていたのですが、同じ様な意味で医学でも使われているのですね。 辞書での説明を見ます。
・V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary:
Definition: (n.) 1. the act of pushing to the side or diverting to an alternate course; 2. a bypass or diversion of bodily fluid (in medicine); (v.) 1. to divert or transfer (as in trains on a track); 2. to avoid responsibility by shifting it to someone else; 3. to move somebody or something from one place to another
Tips: Shunt means "to cast aside or move something to an alternate course." Shunt is often used when referring to railroad switches or in medicine, when a passage that diverts the flow of blood or other bodily fluid form one channel to another is created in surgery. In the definition of moving someone or something, shunt is used in the context of convenience or necessity, rather than kindness. Shunt can also be used to denote the diversion of an electrical current.
由来をOnline Etymologyで見ると：
early 13c., perhaps from shunen "to shun ". Adopted by railways 1842 as a verb, 1862 as a noun, and by technicians in the sense of "electrical conductor" from 1863. Medical use dates from 1923.
鉄道で最初に使われ、電気そして医学にも使われる様になった単語でした。
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