stent

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/stɛnt/pin pen merger/stɪnt/

noun

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

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Meanings

stent1

nounstent (plural stents)

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

present singular third person stents · participle present stenting · participle past stented · past stented

  1. medicineTo insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.

stent2

nounstent (plural stents)

plural stents

  1. archaicAn 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
verbstent (third-person singular simple present stents, present participle stenting, simple past and past participle stented)

present singular third person stents · participle present stenting · participle past stented · past stented

  1. archaicTo keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.

    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, →OCLC, stanza 11
  2. archaicTo stint; to stop; to cease.

Stent3

proper noun
  1. A surname.

Origin

stent · noun, verb

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

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stent · noun, verb

See stint.

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 支架
  • 支架 (zhījià)slender tube
Finnish stentti, stentata
  • stenttislender tube
  • stentatato insert a stent
Japanese ステント
  • ステント (sutento)slender tube
Norwegian Bokmål stent
  • stentslender tube
Polish stent
  • stentslender tube
Portuguese stent
  • stentslender tube
Russian стент
  • стент (stent)slender tube
Spanish estent
  • estentslender tube
Turkish stent
  • stentslender tube

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with stent

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Sounds the same

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Cite this entry
APA

stent. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stent

MLA

“stent.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stent. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stent,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stent.

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