Stent Definition

stĕnt
stents
noun
A device used to support a bodily orifice or cavity during skin grafting or to immobilize a skin graft following placement.
American Heritage Medicine
Any of various materials or devices used to hold tissue in place; esp., a tubular device implanted inside a blood vessel to keep the vessel open.
Webster's New World

A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.

Wiktionary
(archaic) An allotted portion; a stint.
Wiktionary
verb
(archaic) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
Wiktionary
(archaic) To stint; to stop; to cease.
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Other Word Forms of Stent

Noun

Singular:
stent
Plural:
stents

Origin of Stent

  • After Charles R. Stent (1845–1901), British dentist

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent.

    From Wiktionary

  • See stint.

    From Wiktionary

Stent Sentence Examples

  • We see patients admitted with Acute Coronary Syndrome, and following angioplasty / stent or cardiac surgery.

  • Accelerated atherosclerosis may occur following balloon angioplasty, placement of an arterial stent, and following transplantation.

  • The stent clears a passage through the bile duct to allow the bile duct to allow the bile to drain away.

  • In some cases, a permanent metal tube, called a stent, may be placed across the obstruction, to relieve the blockage.

  • The soldier had died following an operation to insert a stent into an artery, a device designed to cleanse the bloodstream of cholesterol.

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Words Starting With

SSTSTE

Words Ending With

TNTENT

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