Look up: stent

1. stent
   [n] - a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis
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2. Stent
   In some patients with a blocked artery, surgery may be avoided by inserting a stent, which is rather like a small, coiled, stainless steel spring. It is placed, using an angioplasty catheter, in the blocked or collapsed section of the artery. When it is released from the catheter, the spring expands and holds the artery open.
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3. Stent
   A rigid tube that is inserted into a natural tube of the body, e.g., urethra, blood vessel, with the purpose of keeping it open.
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4. Stent
   (Stents) A stent is a pipe. Stents are used to keep open tubes in the body that are in danger of becoming blocked off. For example, in cancer of the lung a stent may be used to keep open an airway that is becoming blocked by a tumour (cancer growth).
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5. Stent
   a device used to hold tissues in place, such as to support a skin graft
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6. Stent
   A narrowing. Commonly used in relation to the valves of the heart whose narrowing may lead to heart failure. (E.g. aortic stenosis). Also applied to the narrowing of an artery (E.g. carotid stenosis)
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7. Stent
   a tubular metal mesh often inserted during angioplasty (see angioplasty above)
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8. Stent
   Stent: A tube designed to be inserted into a vessel or passageway to keep it open. Stents are inserted into narrowed coronary arteries to help keep them open after balloon angioplasty. The stent then allows the normal flow of blood and oxygen to the heart. Stents placed in narrowed carotid arteries ...
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9. Stent
   Stent transitive verb [ Obsolete imperfect Stente ; obsolete past participle Stent .] [ See Stint .] To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint. «...
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10. Stent
    Stent intransitive verb To stint; to stop; to cease. « And of this cry they would never stenten .» Chaucer.
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11. Stent
    Stent noun An allotted portion; a stint. 'Attain'd his journey's stent .' Mir. for Mag.
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12. stent
    <equipment> A tube made of metal or plastic that is inserted into a vessel or passage to keep the lumen open and prevent closure due to a stricture or external compression. ... Stents are commonly used to keep blood vessels open in the coronary arteries, into the oesophagus for strictures or c...
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13. stent
    noun a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis
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14. stent
    (stent) a mold for keeping a skin graft in place, made of Stent mass or some acrylic or dental compound. by extension, a device or mold of a suitable material used to provide support for a tubular structure within the body that is being anastomosed. A stent inside a blood vessel maintains patency by scaffo...
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15. Stent
    • (n.) An allotted portion; a stint. • (obs. p. p.) of Stent • (v. i.) To stint; to stop; to cease. • (v. t.) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
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16. Stent
    A stent is a wire mesh tube that's permanently inserted into an artery to help keep it from closing up again. Stents can be used along with angioplasty to help keep an artery open following a heart attack or stroke. (Read about 'Angioplasty' 'Heart Attack' 'Stroke')
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17. Stent
    Type: Term Pronunciation: stent Definitions: 1. Charles R., 19th-century English dentist. See: stent, Stent graft
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18. stent
    Type: Term Pronunciation: stent Definitions: 1. A thread, rod, or catheter, lying within the lumen of a tubular structure, used to provide support during or after repair or anastomosis, or to ensure patency of an intact but contracted lumen. 2. The process of placing a stent. 3. Device used to maint...
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19. Stent
    A tube that is placed in a body organ to keep it open. For example, a stent could be put into a blocked bile duct or an airway or the gullet.
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20. stent
    A device placed in a body structure (such as a blood vessel or the gastrointestinal tract) to keep the structure open.
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21. Stent
    In the technical vocabulary of medicine, a `stent` is an artificial `tube` inserted into a natural passage/conduit in the body to prevent, or counteract, a disease-induced, localized flow constriction. The term may also refer to a tube used to temporarily hold such a natural conduit open to allow ac...
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