Stent

Stentname

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  A surname.

stentnoun詞源 1/stɛnt/

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  A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.

  • Tiny 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.

stentverb詞源 1/stɛnt/

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  medicinesciencesTo insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.

stentnoun詞源 2/stɛnt/

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  archaicAn allotted portion; a stint.

  • 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.

stentverb詞源 2/stɛnt/

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  archaicTo keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.

  • Yet n'ould she stent / Her bitter railing and foule revilement.
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  archaicTo stint; to stop; to cease.