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Stent

Stent \Stent\, v. t. [Obs. imp. Stente; obs. p. p. Stent.] To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.

Then would he weep, he might not be stent.
--Chaucer.

Yet n'ould she stent Her bitter railing and foul revilement.
--Spenser.

Stent

Stent \Stent\, v. i. To stint; to stop; to cease.

And of this cry they would never stenten.
--Chaucer.

Stent

Stent \Stent\, n. An allotted portion; a stint. ``Attain'd his journey's stent.''
--Mir. for Mag.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stent

"tube implanted temporarily," 1964, named for Charles T. Stent (1807-1885), English dentist.

Wiktionary
stent

Etymology 1 n. A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure. Etymology 2

n. (context archaic English) An allotted portion; a stint. vb. 1 (context archaic English) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint. 2 (context archaic English) To stint; to stop; to cease.

WordNet
stent

n. a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis

Wikipedia
Stent

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 coronary, vascular and biliary stents, to simple plastic stents used to allow the flow of urine between kidney and bladder. Stent is also used as a verb to describe the placement of such a device, particularly when a disease such as atherosclerosis has pathologically narrowed a structure such as an artery.

A stent should be differentiated from a "shunt". A shunt is a tube that connects two previously unconnected parts of the body to allow fluid to flow between them. Stents and shunts can be made of similar materials, but perform two different tasks.

Stent (surname)

Stent is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Peter Stent (c. 1642 – 1665), London printmaker and seller
  • Charles Stent (1807–1885), English dentist for whom the medical stent is named
  • Gunther Stent (1924-2008), German-American molecular geneticist
  • Angela Stent (born 1947), American foreign-affairs educator
  • Mark Stent (born 1965), British record producer, engineer, and mixer a.k.a. "Spike" Stent

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.