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noun stɛntstɛnt 1Medicine
A splint placed temporarily inside a duct, canal, or blood vessel to aid healing or relieve an obstruction. Example sentencesExamples - Research has focused on developing methods to reduce or eliminate the potential for restenosis, including drug-eluting stents and radiation therapy.
- Complications, however, included migration of the stent, occlusion of the stent and obstructions of the cystic duct.
- This unique metal has already proven useful in such medical applications as catheter guidewires, stents, and microsurgery tools.
- A ureteral stent was placed to relieve the obstruction.
- Sometimes, the fatty plaques start to develop again inside the stent.
- 1.1 An impression or cast of a part or body cavity, used to maintain pressure so as to promote healing, especially of a skin graft.
2also Stentstrademark mass noun A substance used in dentistry for taking impressions of the teeth.
Origin Late 19th century: from the name of Charles T. Stent (1807–85), English dentist. The sense 'splint' dates from the 1960s. Rhymes absent, accent, anent, ascent, assent, augment, bent, cement, cent, circumvent, consent, content, dent, event, extent, ferment, foment, forewent, forwent, frequent, gent, Ghent, Gwent, lament, leant, lent, meant, misrepresent, misspent, outwent, pent, percent, pigment, rent, scent, segment, sent, spent, Stoke-on-Trent, Tashkent, tent, torment, Trent, underspent, underwent, vent, went noun stɛntstɛnt Scottish historical 1An assessment of property made for purposes of taxation. as modifier it was recorded in the stent book - 1.1 The amount or value assessed; a tax.
the next stent is to pay 5 sterling to Allexr
verb stɛntstɛnt [with object]Scottish historical Assess and charge (a person or a community) for purposes of taxation. stent the Parish of Kildaltan in the ascertained sum
Origin Middle English: from Old French estente 'valuation', related to Anglo-Norman French extente (see extent). nounstɛntstent Medicine 1A tubular support placed temporarily inside a blood vessel, canal, or duct to aid healing or relieve an obstruction. Example sentencesExamples - A ureteral stent was placed to relieve the obstruction.
- Complications, however, included migration of the stent, occlusion of the stent and obstructions of the cystic duct.
- Sometimes, the fatty plaques start to develop again inside the stent.
- This unique metal has already proven useful in such medical applications as catheter guidewires, stents, and microsurgery tools.
- Research has focused on developing methods to reduce or eliminate the potential for restenosis, including drug-eluting stents and radiation therapy.
- 1.1 An impression or cast of a part or body cavity, used to maintain pressure so as to promote healing, especially of a skin graft.
Origin Late 19th century: from the name of Charles T. Stent (1807–85), English dentist. The sense ‘splint’ dates from the 1960s. nounstɛntstent Scottish historical 1An assessment of property made for purposes of taxation. as modifier it was recorded in the stent book - 1.1 The amount or value assessed; a tax.
verbstɛntstent [with object]Scottish historical Assess and charge (a person or a community) for purposes of taxation. stent the Parish of Kildaltan in the ascertained sum
Origin Middle English: from Old French estente ‘valuation’, related to Anglo-Norman French extente (see extent). |