/stɛnt/, /stɪnt/
OriginUnclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent. The English surname is a variant of Stein.
- A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.
“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 yea”
- archaicAn allotted portion; a stint.
“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.”
- To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.
- archaicTo keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
“Yet n'ould she stent / Her bitter railing and foule revilement.”
- archaicTo stint; to stop; to cease.
Formsstents(plural) · stents(present, singular, third-person) · stenting(participle, present) · stented(participle, past) · stented(past)