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stent

[ stent ]

noun

  1. Medicine/Medical. a small, expandable tube used for inserting in a blocked vessel or other part.


stent

/ stɛnt /

noun

  1. med a tube of plastic or sprung metal mesh placed inside a hollow tube to reopen it or keep it open; uses in surgery include preventing a blood vessel from closing, esp after angioplasty, and assisting healing after an anastomosis


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Word History and Origins

Origin of stent1

First recorded in 1960–65; origin uncertain

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Word History and Origins

Origin of stent1

C19: after Charles Stent (1807–85), English dentist

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Example Sentences

This can lead to the very heart attack that placing the stent was trying to prevent.

Leno asked about his recent cardiovascular surgery in which doctors installed a stent to open up a clogged artery.

The 67-year-old former president had a heart stent placed this week.

In December, he underwent a coronary stent procedure to clear a blocked artery.

Yet the number of angioplasties and stent placements performed has increased, not decreased.

Nan was sitting at the window inside, knitting her stent on a blue stocking.

Stentor, stent′or, n. a very loud-voiced herald in the Iliad, hence any person with a remarkably loud voice: the ursine howler.

You fooled 'way so much time out in the orcha'd this evenin' thet yer stent hain't nigh done.

How did the word stint, on American lips, first convert itself into stent and then into stunt?

Young Stephen boldly called upon Mrs. Stent to protest against the sentence.

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