stent

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A small metal device called a stent is also carried by the tube and deployed at the site of the blockage in order to prop open the artery.

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  1. noun A device used to support a bodily orifice or cavity during skin grafting or to immobilize a skin graft following placement.
  2. noun A slender thread, rod, or catheter inserted into a tubular structure, such as a blood vessel, to provide support during or after anastomosis.

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  • We're putting in a copper stent, and this copper stent erodes the artery and causes heart attacks. —  Robert Fischell on medical inventing
  • But I have finished my stent, and wrote all under this date, ; now I have just daylight eno' to add, my love and duty to dear friends at Cumberland png 071 EBENEZER STORER March 14.—Mr. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Diary of Anna Green Winslow, by Anna Green Winslow
  • In the first six-year follow-up of a pivotal study of any drug-eluting stent, the clinical benefits of the CYPHER® Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent compared to a bare-metal stent (BMS) were sustained according to data ... —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • Then, two years ago, I had blockages in two of the main arteries leading to the heart and ended up having a double angioplasty (in which a tube called a stent is inserted to keep the blood vessels open). —  Home | Mail Online
  • This study shows the feasibility of implantation of the bioabsorbable everolimus-eluting stent, with an acceptable in-stent late loss, minimal intrastent neointimal hyperplasia, and a low stent area obstruction. —  Medgadget
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  1. After Charles R. Stent (1845-1901), English dentist.

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  1. A variant of stend, ult. of extend, after the noun stent.
  2. A variant of stend, in def. 2 of extent: see stend, n., stent, v., and extent.
  3. Scots also stant; from Middle English stente, estent, taxation, valuation, from Middle Latin extenta, valuation: see extent.
  4. from stent, n.
  5. Middle English stent, stopping-place. Cf. Danish stente, a stile; ult. from stand, v.
  6. Origin obscure.
 

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