by-pass

Noun

bypass (plural bypasses)

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.
   • Five of the 16 patients required simultaneous FF bypass and iliaco-femoral bypass; 2, required simultaneous FF bypass and iliac thrombo-endoarterectomy (Table II).1989, Antonio Strano, Salvatore Novo, editors, Advances in Vascular Pathology 1989: Proceedings of the 15th World Congress of the International Union of Angiology, Rome, 17–22 September 1989, volume...

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