stent

[ stent ]

/ stɛnt /

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noun

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

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Origin of stent

First recorded in 1960–65; origin uncertain

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH stent

stent , stint

Words nearby stent

stenotopic, stenotype, stenotypy, stenoxenous, Stensen's duct, stent, Stentor, stentorian, stentorious, step, step aerobics

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How to use stent in a sentence

Currently, physicians treating someone with a blood clot in the brain insert a catheter into an artery, guide it to the affected area, and remove the clot with suction or a stent.
Inventing soft things to solve hard problems|Mark Roth|February 23, 2022|MIT Technology Review
They’re used in medicine, too, for high-precision eye surgeries and for forging tiny stents.
When light flashes for a quintillionth of a second, things get weird|Rahul Rao|November 8, 2021|Popular-Science
I now had a stent in my main artery, which had been 95 percent blocked.
Food was my life — until a heart attack at 41 almost killed me|Rob Petrone|March 3, 2021|Washington Post
High-quality scientific studies show that stents in stable patients neither save more lives nor reduce the odds of a heart attack any more effectively than simply taking heart medicine and making lifestyle changes.
My cancer might be back—and I wonder if unnecessary radiation caused it in the first place|jakemeth|September 22, 2020|Fortune

This can lead to the very heart attack that placing the stent was trying to prevent.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Risky Heart Surgery|Dr. Anand Veeravagu, MD|November 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Leno asked about his recent cardiovascular surgery in which doctors installed a stent to open up a clogged artery.
W. Charms on the ‘Tonight’ Show|Lloyd Grove|November 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The 67-year-old former president had a heart stent placed this week.
George Bush Gets a Heart Stent—and a Close Brush With Our Broken Health-Care System|Kent Sepkowitz|August 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In December, he underwent a coronary stent procedure to clear a blocked artery.
Philip Out of Hospital|Tom Sykes|August 20, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Yet the number of angioplasties and stent placements performed has increased, not decreased.
The Real Fight Over Health Care Should Be Against Diabetes and Obesity|Mark Hyman, MD|March 23, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Nan was sitting at the window inside, knitting her stent on a blue stocking.
The Pot of Gold|Mary E. Wilkins
Stentor, stent′or, n. a very loud-voiced herald in the Iliad, hence any person with a remarkably loud voice: the ursine howler.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)|Various
You fooled 'way so much time out in the orcha'd this evenin' thet yer stent hain't nigh done.
Crestlands|Mary Addams Bayne
How did the word stint, on American lips, first convert itself into stent and then into stunt?
The American Language|Henry L. Mencken
Young Stephen boldly called upon Mrs. Stent to protest against the sentence.
The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I.|Sir Leslie Stephen

British Dictionary definitions for stent

stent

/ (stɛnt) /

noun

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

Word Origin for stent

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

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Medical definitions for stent

stent

[ stĕnt ]

A device that is used to maintain a bodily orifice or cavity during skin grafting, or to immobilize a skin graft following placement.

A slender thread, rod, or catheter placed within the lumen of tubular structures, such as a blood vessel, to provide support during or after anastomosis.