Stent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A device used to support a bodily orifice or cavity during skin grafting or to immobilize a skin graft following placement.
  • n. A slender thread, rod, or catheter inserted into a tubular structure, such as a blood vessel, to provide support during or after anastomosis.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.
  • n. An allotted portion; a stint.
  • v. To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
  • v. To stint; to stop; to cease.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
  • verb-intransitive. To stint; to stop; to cease.
  • n. An allotted portion; a stint.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An obsolete or dialectal variant of stint.
  • To stretch.
  • To straiten.
  • To confine.
  • n. A stretcher; a stenter (which see).
  • n. Extent; limit; in some English mining districts, the limits of a pitch or bargain.
  • n. In Scots law, a valuation of property in order to taxation; a taxation; a. tax.
  • In Scots law, to assess; tax at a certain rate.
  • n. A stopping-place.
  • n. In mining, same as attle.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis
  • Verb Form
    stenting    stents   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    tube    tubing   
    Form
    stente   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    restrain    stint    stop    cease   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bendt    Brent    Gent    Ghent    Kent    Lent    Tashkent    Trent    accent    ascent   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    vestigiis    endovascular    revascularization    helve    iliac    aneurysm    solatium    stenosis    volontade    catheter