stent

[ stent ]

noun

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

stent

/ stɛnt /

noun

1. 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 History and Origins

Origin of stent¹

First recorded in 1960–65; origin uncertain

Word History and Origins

Origin of stent¹

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

Example Sentences

Stent explains that one of the “unintended consequences” of Russia’s invasion is NATO’s renewed unity.

From Time

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.

From MIT Technology Review

They’re used in medicine, too, for high-precision eye surgeries and for forging tiny stents.

From Popular-Science

At a 1971 conference on the search for extraterrestrials, Stent suggested that, instead of expanding bravely outwards, civilizations collapse inwards into meditative and intoxicated bliss.

From Singularity Hub 

I now had a stent in my main artery, which had been 95 percent blocked.

From Washington Post

This can lead to the very heart attack that placing the stent was trying to prevent.

From The Daily Beast

Leno asked about his recent cardiovascular surgery in which doctors installed a stent to open up a clogged artery.

From The Daily Beast

The 67-year-old former president had a heart stent placed this week.

From The Daily Beast

In December, he underwent a coronary stent procedure to clear a blocked artery.

From The Daily Beast

Yet the number of angioplasties and stent placements performed has increased, not decreased.

From The Daily Beast

Nan was sitting at the window inside, knitting her stent on a blue stocking.

From Project Gutenberg

Stentor, stent′or, n. a very loud-voiced herald in the Iliad, hence any person with a remarkably loud voice: the ursine howler.

From Project Gutenberg

You fooled 'way so much time out in the orcha'd this evenin' thet yer stent hain't nigh done.

From Project Gutenberg

How did the word stint, on American lips, first convert itself into stent and then into stunt?

From Project Gutenberg

Young Stephen boldly called upon Mrs. Stent to protest against the sentence.

From Project Gutenberg