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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. quotations examples
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
third-person singular simple present stents, present participle stenting, simple past and past participle stented
(medicine) To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel. examples
(archaic) An allotted portion; a stint. quotations
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
(archaic) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint. quotations
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, stanza 11
(archaic) To stint; to stop; to cease.