stent

English

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Etymology 1

Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent.

Noun

stent (plural stents)

1. A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.
   • 2006 New York Times

     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.

Etymology 2

See stint.

Noun

stent (plural stents)

1. (archaic) An allotted portion; a stint.

   • 1905, Annie Hamilton Donnell, “The Hundred and Oneth”, in Rebecca Marry^[1], edition Reprint, Fiction, Project Gutenberg, published 2009:

     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.

Verb

stent (third-person singular simple present stents, present participle stenting, simple past and past participle stented)

1. (archaic) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
2. (archaic) To stint; to stop; to cease.

Anagrams

• tents

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Latin

Verb

stent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of stō
   1. "may they stand"
   2. "may they stay, may they remain"