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Stent

//stɛnt// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 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.

    "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."

  2. 2
    An allotted portion; a stint. archaic

    "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."

  3. 3
    a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.
  2. 2
    To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint. archaic

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

  3. 3
    To stint; to stop; to cease. archaic

Etymology

Etymology 1

Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent. The English surname is a variant of Stein.

Etymology 2

Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent. The English surname is a variant of Stein.

Etymology 3

See stint.

Etymology 4

See stint.

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