stent

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  2. An allotted portion; a stint. archaic
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.
  2. To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint. archaic
    — Yet n'ould she stent / Her bitter railing and foule revilement.
  3. To stint; to stop; to cease. archaic

词形变化

stents plural stents present,singular,third-person stenting participle,present stented participle,past stented past stents plural stents present,singular,third-person stenting participle,present stented participle,past stented past

词汇关系

衍生词
unstented

词源

词源 1
Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent. The English surname is a variant of Stein.
词源 2
See stint.
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