stent

[stent]

noun

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

Origin of stent

First recorded in 1960–65; origin uncertain

Can be confusedstent stint

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Examples from the Web for stent

Contemporary Examples of stent

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
Leno asked about his recent cardiovascular surgery in which doctors installed a stent to open up a clogged artery.
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Lloyd Grove
November 20, 2013
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

Historical Examples of stent

I have Set myself a Stent and determine to read the 3d volume Half out.
John Quincy Adams
John. T. Morse
We had finished our stent early the day of which I am writing.
Eben Holden
Irving Bacheller
The time that the farm-boy gets for his own is usually at the end of a stent.
Being a Boy
Charles Dudley Warner
I doubted if there could be any Fourth of July if my stent was not done.
Being a Boy
Charles Dudley Warner
Mr. Stent continued the pastor until he had completed eight years.
The Church Index
William Pepperell

British Dictionary definitions for stent

stent

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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Word Origin and History for stent

"tube implanted temporarily," 1964, named for Charles T. Stent (1807-1885), English dentist.

stent in Medicine

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.