stent /stɛnt/verb 3noun 2forms 3 verb3 •To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel. •(no longer used) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.Yet n'ould she stent / Her bitter railing and foule revilement. — 1590 •(no longer used) To stint; to stop; to cease. noun2 •A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure. •(no longer used) An allotted portion; a stint.The hundred-and-oneth stitch was my stent, and it's done. I'm not ever going to take the hundred and twoth. I've decided. — 1905 formsstented · stenting · stents
