bypass (redirected from Coronary artery bypass)

by·pass also by-pass  (bps)

n.

1. A highway or section of a highway that passes around an obstructed or congested area.

2. A pipe or channel used to conduct gas or liquid around another pipe or a fixture.

3. A means of circumvention.

4. Electricity See shunt.

5. Medicine

a. An alternative passage created surgically to divert the flow of blood or other bodily fluid or circumvent an obstructed or diseased organ.

b. A surgical procedure to create such a channel: a coronary artery bypass; a gastric bypass.

tr.v. by·passed, by·pass·ing, by·pass·es

1. To avoid (an obstacle) by using an alternative channel, passage, or route.

2. To be heedless of; ignore: bypassed standard office procedures.

3. To channel (piped liquid, for example) through a bypass.

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bypass

Noun

1. a main road built to avoid a city

2. a secondary pipe, channel, or appliance through which the flow of a substance, such as gas or electricity, is redirected

3. a surgical operation in which the blood flow is redirected away from a diseased or blocked part of the heart

Verb

1. to go around or avoid (a city, obstruction, problem, etc.)

2. to proceed without reference to (regulations or a superior); get round; avoid

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bypass  (bps) A passage created surgically to divert the flow of blood or other bodily fluid or to circumvent an obstructed or diseased organ.

bypass In this example of coronary bypass surgery, a vein graft is used to bypass a diseased right coronary artery.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	bypass - a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center beltway, ring road, ringway highway, main road - a major road for any form of motor transport
	2.	bypass - a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part) shunt - a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another; "an arteriovenus shunt"
	3.	bypass - a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current electrical shunt, shunt circuit, electric circuit, electrical circuit - an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow conductor - a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc.
Verb	1.	bypass - avoid something unpleasant or laborious; "You cannot bypass these rules!" get around, short-circuit, go around avoid - stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something; "Her former friends now avoid her"

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bypass

verb 1. get round, avoid, evade, circumvent, outmanoeuvre, body-swerve Scot.

verb 2. go round, skirt, circumvent, depart from, deviate from, pass round, detour round << OPPOSITE cross

Translations

bypass [ˈbaɪpɑːs] n → carretera de, circunvalación;

(MED) → (operación f de) by-pass m

vt → evitar

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bypass [ˈbaɪpɑːs] n → rocade f;

(Med) → pontage m

vt → éviter

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bypass [ˈbaɪpɑːs] n → Umgehungsstraße f;

(Med) → Bypassoperation f

vt (also fig) → umgehen

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bypass [ˈbaɪpɑːs] n → circonvallazione f;

(MED) → by-pass m inv

vt → fare una deviazione intorno a