Bypass

Definitions

1. A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
2. A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).
3. The act of going past or around.
4. A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
5. An electrical shunt.
6. An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.

Equivalents

Examples

“Five of the 16 patients required simultaneous FF bypass and iliaco-femoral bypass; 2, required simultaneous FF bypass and iliac thrombo-endoarterectomy (Table II).”

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