bypass

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.

2. 2

   A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural…

   A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).

3. 3

   The act of going past or around.

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   1. 4

      A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.

   2. 5

      An electrical shunt.

   3. 6

      An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ

      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).
   4. 7

      To avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.

   5. 8

      To ignore the usual channels or procedures.

      • More to theyr proper Elements inaugurated none, / Than ſhee to hers by-paſſed, he to his poſſeſſed Throne.
      • Another force, also from the east, has by-passed Peiping and is striking southward. It apparently intends to swing eastward to form a junction, which probably will be effected near Langfang, on the railroad 30 miles southeast of Peiping.

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