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stents

/stɛnts/

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pin pen merger/stɪnts/

stents is the plural of stent.

stents is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stent.

Meaning of stent

Noun (1)

stent (plural stents)

  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.2006 October 21, Barnaby J. Feder, “Doctors Rethink Widespread Use of Heart Stents”, in The New York Times

Noun (2)

stent (plural stents)

  1. (archaic) 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

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Words that rhyme with stents

Questions about stents

What is stents the plural of?
Stents is the plural of stent.
How do you pronounce stents?
Stents is pronounced /stɛnts/.

Words near stents in the dictionary

  1. stentoriously
  2. stentoriousness
  3. Stentoronic
  4. stentorophonic
  5. stentors
  6. stents
  7. Stenzel
  8. Stenzels
  9. step
  10. step aerobics
  11. step and repeat

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