Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A device used to support a bodily orifice or cavity during skin grafting or to immobilize a skin graft following placement.
- noun A short tubular device made of wire mesh or fabric that is placed permanently in an anatomical passage, usually an artery during angioplasty, to keep it open after occlusion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal variant of
stint . - noun In Scots law, a valuation of property in order to taxation; a taxation; a. tax.
- To stretch.
- To straiten.
- To confine.
- noun A stretcher; a stenter (which see).
- noun Extent; limit; in some English mining districts, the limits of a pitch or bargain.
- In Scots law, to assess; tax at a certain rate.
- noun A stopping-place.
- noun In mining, same as
attle .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To stint; to stop; to cease.
- transitive verb To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
- noun An allotted portion; a stint.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A slender tube inserted into a
blood vessel , aureter or theoesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure. - noun archaic An allotted portion; a stint.
- verb archaic To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
- verb archaic To stint; to stop; to cease.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This morning, we deployed what we call a stent in Mr. Cheney's diagonal artery.
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Short version: yes, stent is out, I have antibiotics for three days, just to be safe ... but it's over.
And Done...Almost! archmage 2009
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Dad's a representative for a company that makes cardiovascular surgery stuff (he specializes in stent grafts), so there are local hospitals where he's very familiar with the staff, and if he's having surgery, he's having it at one of those; this just happened to be the hospital across the street from the restaurant.
Right, so - 2009
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Next, I’d like to see a poll asking the public whether they believe bypass surgery or a stent is the best procedure after a second heart attack.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Two Thirds of Americans Cannot Name Even One Supreme Court Justice 2010
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Laura Victoria: Next, I’d like to see a poll asking the public whether they believe bypass surgery or a stent is the best procedure after a second heart attack.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Two Thirds of Americans Cannot Name Even One Supreme Court Justice 2010
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The trolls probably don’t understand that a heart stent is a fairly safe medical procedure.
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About 600,000 angioplasty procedures, which almost always involve placement of a tiny metal tube called a stent, are done in the U.S. each year.
Heart Treatment Overused Ron Winslow 2011
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The best remedy is angioplasty, in which doctors push a tube through an artery to the clog, inflate a tiny balloon to flatten it, and place a mesh prop called a stent to keep the artery open.
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Physicians usually insert a device called a stent to keep the artery open.
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During the study for the aortic-aneurysm treatment, a device from Aptus Endosystems Inc. known as a stent-graft, an unusually high percentage of the study ' s participants developed blood clots in their legs or in the devices, which in several cases required emergency surgery or placement of a stent, doctors involved in the study said.
Stent-Graft Study Points to Gap in Oversight Thomas M. Burton 2010
yarb commented on the word stent
The adviser said Clinton was in "good spirits" after undergoing a procedure to place two stents – tiny mesh scaffolds – in a coronary artery at New York Presbyterian hospital.
- "Bill Clinton taken to hospital after heart scare", Guardian Unlimited.
February 12, 2010
yarb commented on the word stent
Link to grauniad article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/11/bill-clinton-heart-hospital
The anti-spam link-blocker needs some fine-tuning.
February 12, 2010