stent

See also: Stent

English

3D rendering of a stent in a coronary artery

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɛnt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /stɪnt/
    • Homophone: stint
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Etymology 1

Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent. The English surname is a variant of Stein.

Noun

stent (plural stents)

1. A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.
   • 2006 October 21, Barnaby J. Feder, “Doctors Rethink Widespread Use of Heart Stents”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Tiny metal sleeves placed in arteries to keep blood flowing, stents have become such a popular quick fix for clogged coronary vessels that Americans will receive more than 1.5 million of them this year.

     (Can we archive this URL?)

Derived terms

• intrastent
• microstent
• poststent
• stentectomy
• stented
• stentgraft
• stentless

Translations

slender tube

• Armenian: ստենտ (stent)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 支架 (zh) (zhījià)

• Finnish: stentti (fi)
• Japanese: ステント (sutento)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stent m

• Polish: stent (pl) m
• Portuguese: stent m
• Russian: стент (ru) m (stent)
• Serbo-Croatian: stent m, premosnica (sh) f
• Spanish: estent (es)
• Turkish: stent (tr)

Verb

stent (third-person singular simple present stents, present participle stenting, simple past and past participle stented)

1. (medicine) To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.

Translations

to insert a stent

• Finnish: stentata
• Serbo-Croatian: stentirati

Etymology 2

See stint.

Noun

stent (plural stents)

1. (archaic) An allotted portion; a stint.
   • 1905, Annie Hamilton Donnell, “The Hundred and Oneth”, in Rebecca Marry‎^[2], Reprint edition (Fiction), Project Gutenberg, published 2009:

     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.

Verb

stent (third-person singular simple present stents, present participle stenting, simple past and past participle stented)

1. (archaic) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 11:

     Yet n'ould she stent / Her bitter railing and foule revilement.

2. (archaic) To stint; to stop; to cease.

Derived terms

• unstented

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “stent”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• Netts, netts, tents

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstɛnt]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈstɛnt]

Verb

stent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of stō

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stent/

Verb

stent

1. third-person singular present indicative of standan

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɛŋt/

Noun

stent m

1. hardship

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English stent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstent/ [ˈst̪ẽn̪t̪], /esˈtent/ [esˈt̪ẽn̪t̪]
• Rhymes: -ent
• Syllabification: stent

Noun

stent m (plural stents)

1. stent

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “stent”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026