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A-V shunt (medicine) and cusp (sh)


A-V shunt (medicine)


A-V shunt -->
arteriovenous shunt
<anatomy, surgery> A direct connection between an artery and vein. Most often due to the surgical joining of an artery and a vein under the skin for the purpose of haemodialysis.

Larger arteriovenous shunts can create significant extra workload on the heart since arterial blood is diverted back to the venous circulation before it has a chance to deliver nutrients and oxygen to the body tissues.


cusp (sh)




In architecture, the intersection of lobed or scalloped forms, particularly in arches (cusped arches) and tracery.

Thus the three lobes of a trefoil (cloverleaf form) are separated by three cusps. Cusped forms appear in early Islamic work and were especially common in the Moorish architecture of North Africa and Spain. The form was adopted wholeheartedly by European Gothic architecture.