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stent
/stɛnt/
verb 3noun 2name 1
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3ADJ.
bitter, done
VERB + STENT
stitch
STENT + NOUN
it's
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noun
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.
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.
verb
1
To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.
noun
1
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.
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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 yea
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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.
Wiktionary03
Yet n'ould she stent / Her bitter railing and foule revilement.
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