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Definition of Stent
1. Noun. A slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis.
Definition of Stent
1. v. t. To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
2. v. i. To stint; to stop; to cease.
3. n. An allotted portion; a stint.
Definition of Stent
1. 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. ¹
2. Noun. (archaic) An allotted portion; a stint. ¹
3. Verb. (archaic) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint. ¹
4. Verb. (archaic) To stint; to stop; to cease. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stent
1. a tubular device inserted into a blood vessel [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stent
Literary usage of Stent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Celebrated Trials and Remarkable Cases of Criminal Jurisprudence from the by George Henry Borrow (1825)
"stent was a butcher residing at Pimlico, and, at the time of the seduction of his
... A short time previous to her elopement with him, Mrs. stent had been ..."
2. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1838)
"The duty conferred on the Town-council of electing stent-masters, was in conformity
with a provision in the set of the burgh, adjusted by decreet-arbitral ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1843)
"stent, starting from Malta, visited Athens, Alexandria, Cairo, —crossed the desert to
... Mr. stent has a good deal of the utilitarian in his constitution, ..."
4. Records of Old Aberdeen, MCLVII-[MCMIII] by Aberdeen (Scotland) (1899)
"... stent maisters being referred to the brewers oune electione and ... against any
of the stent maisters to be chosen be themselfs the ..."
5. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1820)
"Henry stent was put to the bar, and the court was almost immediately crowded with
females. A London jury having been called, the prisoner was arraigned upon ..."
6. Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Glasgow ... A. D. 1573-17 by Glasgow (Scotland), James David Marwick, Robert Renwick (1881)
"... out the twa counsell bookis and stent rollis that they wer sent bak againe.
... and fyve of them to be ane quorum, and to stent the landward mens landis ..."
7. Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Glasgow ... A. D. 1573-17 by Glasgow (Scotland), James David Marwick, Robert Renwick (1881)
"... out the twa counsell bookis and stent rollis that they wer sent bak againe.
... and fyve of them to be ane quorum, and to stent the landward mens landis ..."
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