stent

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɛnt/
  • IPA^(key): /stɪnt/
    • Homophone: stint
• 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 October 21, Barnaby J. Feder, “Doctors Rethink Widespread Use of Heart Stents”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

Translations

slender tube

• Armenian: ստենտ (stent)
• Finnish: stentti (fi)
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• Russian: стент (ru) m (stent)
• Spanish: estent

Verb

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

1. (medicine) To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.

Translations

to insert a stent

• Finnish: stentata
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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^[2], Reprint edition (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.
   • Edmund Spenser

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

2. (archaic) To stint; to stop; to cease.

Anagrams

• Netts, netts, tents

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) stent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of stō

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Spanish

Noun

stent m (plural stents)

1. stent