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bypass (medicine)


bypass


1. A shunt or auxiliary flow.

2. <surgery> To create new flow from one structure to another through a diversionary channel. A by-passage, for a pipe, or Other channel, to divert circulation from the usual course.

See: shunt.

Source: Websters Dictionary


crook(1) (iou)



crook noun & adjective. ME.
[Old Norse krokr hook, barb, peg, bend, corner (Swedish krok, Danish krog).]
A. noun.
I.
An implement, weapon, or tool of hooked form; a hook. ME.
R. S. Surtees Crooks, from whence used to dangle..legs of..mutton.
A shepherd's staff, one end of which is hooked for catching a sheep's leg. LME.
The pastoral staff of a bishop etc., shaped like a shepherd's crook. LME.
A sharply curved part or appendage of anything. LME.
M. Sinclair With a dead child in the crook of her arm.
A curve, a bend, e.g. of a river. LME.
A small piece of ground; an odd corner. LME.
Typography. A bracket, a parenthesis. L16-M18.
A crooked or incurved piece of timber; spec. = CRUCK. E19.
A curved piece of tubing which can be fitted to a wind instrument to change its pitch. Cf. SHANK noun 4g. M19.
II. A trick, an artifice, a wile. ME-L16.
A professional criminal; a rogue, a swindler. colloq. L19.
III.
An act of crooking or bending something. ME.
Phrases: by hook or by crook: see HOOK noun. crook in one's lot Scot. something untoward or distressing; a trial, an affliction. on the crook slang dishonestly.
b. adjective.
Crooked (lit. & esp. fig.). Now chiefly Austral. & NZ. E16.
B. Cronin The crook business man is in a decided minority.
Of a thing or situation: bad; unpleasant; unsatisfactory. Austral. & NZ. L19.
D. Ireland Things were crook at Tallarook.
Annoyed; angry. (Foll. by on, at.) Austral. & NZ. E20.
P. V. White His mum went crook, and swore.
Out of sorts; injured. Austral. & NZ. E20.
X. Herbert He's got a crook heart.
Comb.: crook-back (a) a hunchback; (b) a crooked back; crook-backed adjective hunchbacked; crookneck N. Amer. a squash with a recurved neck.
crookdom noun the realm of crooks E20.
crookery noun the state of being a crook; the dealings of crooks; the world of crooks: E20.
crookish adjective characteristic or suggestive of crooks or crooked dealings E20.