stent
/stɛnt/
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pin pen merger/stɪnt/
stent noun: a slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.
Noun (1)
stent (plural stents)
- 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.2006 October 21, Barnaby J. Feder, “Doctors Rethink Widespread Use of Heart Stents”, in The New York Times
Verb (1)
stent (third-person singular simple present stents, present participle stenting, simple past and past participle stented)
- To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.
Noun (2)
stent (plural stents)
- An allotted portion; a stint.
- 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.1905, Annie Hamilton Donnell, “The Hundred and Oneth”, in Rebecca Marry, Reprint edition (Fiction), Project Gutenberg, published 2009
Verb (2)
stent (third-person singular simple present stents, present participle stenting, simple past and past participle stented)
- To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
- Yet n'ould she stent / Her bitter railing and foule revilement.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 11
- To stint; to stop; to cease.
Proper noun capitalized: Stent
Stent
- A surname.
stent meaning in Tamil
stent in Tamil
- வலைசுருள், செய்நாளம்
Examples of stent in a sentence
- The chest pains were relieved by coronary stenting.
- The thermoexpandable nitinol stent: a long-term alternative in patients without nephropathy or malignancy.
- Bioabsorbable coronary stents--are these the next big thing in coronary angioplasty?
Forms of stent
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | stents |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | stents |
| present participle | stenting |
| past participle | stented |
| past | stented |
Origin of stent
Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent. The English surname is a variant of Stein.
See stint.
Words formed from stent
Words that rhyme with stent
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- repent
- ascent
- rent
- resent
- scent
- absent
- augment
- cement
- content
- extent
- fragment
- lent
- prevent
- anent
- consent
- dent
- dissent
- percent
- relent
- spent
- Tashkent
- tent
- accent
- circumvent
- convent
- discontent
- intent
- invent
- went
- %
- assent
- dement
- ferment
- foment
- gent
- Gwent
- incent
- lament
- malcontent
- reinvent
- underrepresent
- attent
- big tent
- blent
- detent
- diapertent
- djent
- ent
Questions about stent
- What does stent mean?
- Stent means a slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.
- What is stent in Tamil?
- Stent in Tamil is வலைசுருள், செய்நாளம். See Stent meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is stent?
- Stent can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce stent?
- Stent is pronounced /stɛnt/.
- What is the plural of stent?
- The plural of stent is stents.
Words near stent in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: stent (page history and authors); Stent (page history and authors); stent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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