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stent
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Word definitions for stent in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stent \Stent\, v. i. To stint; to stop; to cease. And of this cry they would never stenten. --Chaucer.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In medicine , a stent is a metal or plastic tube inserted into the lumen of an anatomic vessel or duct to keep the passageway open, and stenting is the placement of a stent. There is a wide variety of stents used for different purposes, from expandable ...
Usage examples of stent.
Stent and Ogilvy, anticipating some possibilities of a collision, had telegraphed from Horsell to the barracks as soon as the Martians emerged, for the help of a company of soldiers to protect these strange creatures from violence.
And of this cry they nolde nevere stenten, Til they the reynes of his brydel henten.
On top of this went a Stent mold, a tin guard, and more adhesive plaster.
Such arrogance, when anyone with any sense should have seen that the great period of molecular biology - what Gunther Stent was in retrospect to call its classical period - was just opening.
Godin had had a coronary bypass fifteen years ago, and a cardiac stent implanted in 1998.
If on Friday night you had taken a pair of compasses and drawn a circle with a radius of five miles round the Woking sand pits, I doubt if you would have had one human being outside it, unless it were some relation of Stent or of the three or four cyclists or London people lying dead on the common, whose emotions or habits were at all affected by the new-comers.
The stents will keep the skin loose, and I think it will heal nicely, but I'll want you to check this area several times a day for any signs of infection.
Tev had earned them an extra margin of error by devising ablative stents for the floating couplings.
He was apt to get stents set him,--so much corn to husk, for instance, before that day, so that he could have an extra play-spell.
There were several reasons for this, and chief among them was that both Captain Schermer and Commander Stenten genuinely liked the young couple sharing the sumo wrestler's bed.