Stent

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

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (medicine) To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.
2. (archaic) An allotted portion; a stint.
3. (archaic) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
4. (archaic) To stint; to stop; to cease.

Example Sentences

Yet n'ould she stent / Her bitter railing and foule revilement.

The hundred-and-oneth stitch was my stent, and it's done. I'm not ever going to take the hundred and twoth. I've decided.

Tiny metal sleeves placed in arteries to keep blood flowing, stents have become such a popular quick fix for clogged coronary vessels that Americans will receive more than 1.5 million of them this year.

Word Forms

• stents
• stenting
• stented

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include catheterization, catheter, restenosis, plant, pigtail, expandable.

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