stent
IPA: stˈɛnt
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.
- (archaic) An allotted portion; a stint.
- A surname.
verb
- (medicine) To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.
- (archaic) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
- (archaic) To stint; to stop; to cease.
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Examples of "stent" in Sentences
- The doctors implant a stent for the priapism.
- The origin of the word stent remains unsettled.
- The placement of a stent can open the obstruction.
- Also placement of permanent indwelling biliary stents.
- The second was during the angioplasty and stent insertion.
- The stent is usually inserted with the aid of a cystoscope.
- When the cardiologist inflates the balloon it expands the stent.
- The major advancement in restenosis prevention is the use of stents.
- Physicians usually insert a device called a stent to keep the artery open.
- A damper on the immediate use of intracoronary stents was subacute thrombosis.
- It is absorbed directly by the venous tissue in contact with the stent matrix
- This morning, we deployed what we call a stent in Mr. Cheney's diagonal artery.
- The trolls probably don’t understand that a heart stent is a fairly safe medical procedure.
- Short version: yes, stent is out, I have antibiotics for three days, just to be safe ... but it's over.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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