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STENT
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I. (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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb stent
Context examples:
Dan Finotello, a program director in NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate adds, This polymer integrates fast reversible and reprogrammable actuation, shape locking and untethered operation for applications in soft robotics, morphing structures, and deformable electronics, especially for designing active and adaptive guidewires, catheters and stents that could potentially enable the next generation of biomedical devices for minimally invasive operations.
(Tiny magnetic particles enable new material to bend, twist and grab, National Science Foundation)
Bile drains through the stent into the small intestine or into a collection bag outside the body.
(Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage, NCI Dictionary)
Aorto-iliac occlusive disease reconstruction, peripheral vascular bypass surgery, angioplasty or stent; or percutaneous intervention to the extremities; 4.
(History of Peripheral Vascular Disease, NCI Thesaurus)
The beauty of our sensor is that it can be seamlessly integrated onto existing medical stents or flow diverters that clinicians are already using to treat aneurysms, said Woon-Hong Yeo, a biomedical engineer at Georgia Tech.
(Stretchable wireless sensor could monitor healing of cerebral aneurysms, National Science Foundation)
