stent

• IPA^(key): /stɛnt/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /stɪnt/
    • Homophone: stint
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent.

stent (plural stents)

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 Times

     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.

stent (third-person singular simple present stents, present participle stenting, simple past and past participle stented)

1. (medicine) To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.

See stint.

stent (plural stents)

1. (archaic) An allotted portion; a stint.
   • 1905, Annie Hamilton Donnell, “The Hundred and Oneth”, in Rebecca Marry‎ (Fiction), Reprint edition, Project Gutenberg, published 2009:

     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.

stent (third-person singular simple present stents, present participle stenting, simple past and past participle stented)

1. (archaic) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
   • Edmund Spenser

     Yet n'ould she stent / Her bitter railing and foule revilement.

2. (archaic) To stint; to stop; to cease.

• Netts, netts, tents

stent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of stō

stent m (plural stents)

1. stent