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Stent

Stent Meaning & Definition
Stent Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Stent?

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

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See Also | tube | tubing

Stent In Webster's Dictionary

\Stent\, v. t. [Obs. imp. {Stente}; obs. p. p. {Stent}.] [See {Stint}.] 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\, v. i. To stint; to stop; to cease. And of this cry they would never stenten. --Chaucer.
\Stent\, n. An allotted portion; a stint. ``Attain'd his journey's stent.'' --Mir. for Mag.

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