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stent
noun
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
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/21/business/21stent.html?hp&ex=1161489600&en=bc96ebd215211bdc&ei=5094&partner=homepage
New York Times
:
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
(Archaic, Arch.) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
(Archaic, Arch.) To stint; to stop; to cease.
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