Stent

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -É›nt

Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent.

Full definition of stent

Noun

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.
• 2006 New York TimesTiny 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.

See stint.

Noun

1. (archaic) An allotted portion; a stint.
• 1905, Annie Hamilton Donnell, Rebecca Marry Chapter The Hundred and Oneth, 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.

Verb

1. (archaic) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
• SpenserYet n'ould she stent
  Her bitter railing and foule revilement.
2. (archaic) To stint; to stop; to cease.

Anagrams

• tents