: a short narrow metal or plastic tube often in the form of a mesh that is inserted into the lumen of an anatomical vessel (such as an artery or a bile duct) especially to keep a previously blocked passageway open
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This segment offers pacemakers, implantable defibrillators, heart valves, ablation systems, and vascular stents.
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Joe Cornell, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
These stents are designed to expand or contract as needed, reducing the risk of blockage and improving long-term patient outcomes.
—ArsTechnica, 20 May 2025
Existing thrombectomy methods, which involve aspirating clots via a catheter or trying to grab and remove them through a stent, are not designed primarily to reduce the size of blood clots.
—Ani Freedman, Fortune, 27 June 2025
Doctors at the hospital gave Wirt various medications, used an electrocardiograph and other diagnostic and monitoring devices, and inserted stents into his arteries to improve blood flow to his heart.
—Arielle Zionts, Miami Herald, 30 May 2025
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Joe Cornell, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
These stents are designed to expand or contract as needed, reducing the risk of blockage and improving long-term patient outcomes.
—ArsTechnica, 20 May 2025
Existing thrombectomy methods, which involve aspirating clots via a catheter or trying to grab and remove them through a stent, are not designed primarily to reduce the size of blood clots.
—Ani Freedman, Fortune, 27 June 2025
Doctors at the hospital gave Wirt various medications, used an electrocardiograph and other diagnostic and monitoring devices, and inserted stents into his arteries to improve blood flow to his heart.
—Arielle Zionts, Miami Herald, 30 May 2025
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“Stent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stent. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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stent
noun
variants
also stint
1
: a mold formed from a resinous compound and used for holding a surgical graft in place
also
: something (as a pad of gauze immobilized by sutures) used like a stent
2
: a short narrow metal or plastic tube often in the form of a mesh that is inserted into the lumen of an anatomical vessel (as an artery or bile duct) especially to keep a previously blocked passageway open
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