Travel agents or agencies must have an identifying number called an IATA, or International Air Transport Association, number to work with travel suppliers such as tour operators and airlines. Having IATA accreditation simplifies the business relationship between travel suppliers and travel agents.
Shunt (medical) In medicine, a shunt is a hole or a small passage which moves, or allows movement of, fluid from one part of the body to another. The term may describe either congenital or acquired shunts; and acquired shunts (sometimes referred to as iatrogenic shunts) may be either biological or mechanical.
The term shunting of blood: the brain changes the amount of blood flow going to certain places by changing the size of the arterioles.his blood (2%) is not exposed to lung air, so this blood flow is called shunt flow. Since it is deoxygenated blood and will meet up with oxygenated blood, it decreases the pressure or oxygen in the systemic areteries (pressure is reduced to 95 mmhg). 3 people found this useful. Mai89.