stent

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English

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Etymology 1

Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent. The English surname is a variant of Stein.

Noun

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

stent (third-person singular simple present stents, present participle stenting, simple past and past participle stented)

  1. (medicine) To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.
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Etymology 2

See stint.

Noun

stent (plural stents)

  1. (archaic) An allotted portion; a stint.
    • 1905, Annie Hamilton Donnell, “The Hundred and Oneth”, in Rebecca Marry‎, Reprint edition (Fiction), Project Gutenberg, published 2009:
      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.

Verb

stent (third-person singular simple present stents, present participle stenting, simple past and past participle stented)

  1. (archaic) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
  2. (archaic) To stint; to stop; to cease.

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Latin

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Verb

stent

  1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of stō

Piedmontese

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Noun

stent m

  1. hardship

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English stent.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstent/ , /esˈtent/
  • Rhymes: -ent
  • Syllabification: stent

Noun

stent m (plural stents)

  1. stent

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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