STENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stent mean? 

• STENT (noun)
  The noun STENT has 1 sense:

1. a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis

  Familiarity information: STENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stent" is a kind of...):

tube; tubing (conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases)

 Context examples 

This involves placing balloons and/or stents into the artery to open it and hold it open.

(Carotid Artery Disease, NIH)

A device or a component of a device that has moved from its original location due to external forces (e.g. stent or lead movement).

(Device Component Migration Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

The stretchable sensor, which operates without batteries, could be wrapped around stents or diverters implanted to control blood flow in vessels affected by the aneurysms.

(Stretchable wireless sensor could monitor healing of cerebral aneurysms, National Science Foundation)

Images made by ultrasound guide placement of a stent (tube), which remains in the liver.

(Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage, NCI Dictionary)

The method could also work for dental implants and cardiovascular stents, though such applications “remain untested”.

(Nanopillars help orthopaedic implants resist infection, SciDev.Net)

Fifty percent or greater stenosis within an existing stent.

(In Stent Restenosis, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

Esophageal stents are made of metal mesh, plastic, or silicone, and may be used in the treatment of esophageal cancer.

(Esophageal stent, NCI Dictionary)

Documented abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair or stent; 5.

(History of Peripheral Vascular Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

The placement of an angioplasty guide wire, balloon, or other device (e.g. stent, atherectomy, brachytherapy, or thrombectomy catheter) into a native coronary artery or coronary artery bypass graft for the purpose of mechanical coronary revascularization.

(Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, NCI Thesaurus)

An establishment staffed, equipped, and licensed for performing invasive and non-invasive cardiovascular procedures (e.g. diagnostic heart catheterization, selective coronary angiography and graft angiography, angioplasty, stent placement, endomyocaridal biopsy, valvuloplasty, etc.) used to diagnose and treat various cardiac and circulatory diseases.

(Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, NCI Thesaurus)