name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
stent
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/stɛnt/
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pin-pen-merger: /stɪnt/
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homophone: stint
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rhymes with -ɛnt
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CMU ARPABET: S T EH1 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
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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noun
Meaning 3
An allotted portion; a stint.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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verb
Meaning 4
To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
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verb
Meaning 5
To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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verb
Meaning 6
To stint; to stop; to cease.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
Meaning 7
a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: tube, tubing
History
Etymology
Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent. The English surname is a variant of Stein.
See stint.
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: ստենտ (stent) — slender tube
- Chinese Mandarin: 支架 (zhījià) — slender tube
- Finnish: stentti — slender tube
- Japanese: ステント (sutento) — slender tube
- Norwegian Bokmål: stent — slender tube
- Polish: stent — slender tube
- Portuguese: stent — slender tube
- Russian: стент (stent) — slender tube
- Serbo-Croatian: stent — slender tube
- Serbo-Croatian: premosnica — slender tube
- Spanish: estent — slender tube
- Turkish: stent — slender tube
- Finnish: stentata — to insert a stent
- Serbo-Croatian: stentirati — to insert a stent