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.
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Stent
/stɛnt/
Synonyms for "stent" (3 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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Noun(1 words)
tubular implant
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3 entriesarterial stentbiliary stentureteral stent
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6 entriesarterial stentbiliary stentcoronary stentdrug eluting stentstent placementureteral stent
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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.
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Yet n'ould she stent / Her bitter railing and foule revilement.
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