stent Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Stent transitive verb
Etymology
See Stint.
Wordforms
obsolete imperfect Stente ; obsolete past participle Stent
Definitions
  1. To keep within limits; to restain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
    Then would he weep, he might not be stent. Chaucer.
    Yet n'ould she stent Her bitter railing and foul revilement. Spenser.
Stent intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To stint; to stop; to cease.
    And of this cry they would never stenten. Chaucer.
Stent noun
Definitions
  1. An allotted portion; a stint. "Attain'd his journey's stent." Mir. for Mag.

Webster 1913