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stent

/stent/US // stɛnt //UK // (stɛnt) //

支架

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Medicine/Medical. a small, expandable tube used for inserting in a blocked vessel or other part.

Examples

  • I now had a stent in my main artery, which had been 95 percent blocked.

  • High-quality scientific studies show that stents in stable patients neither save more lives nor reduce the odds of a heart attack any more effectively than simply taking heart medicine and making lifestyle changes.

  • This can lead to the very heart attack that placing the stent was trying to prevent.

  • Leno asked about his recent cardiovascular surgery in which doctors installed a stent to open up a clogged artery.

  • The 67-year-old former president had a heart stent placed this week.

  • In December, he underwent a coronary stent procedure to clear a blocked artery.

  • Yet the number of angioplasties and stent placements performed has increased, not decreased.

  • Nan was sitting at the window inside, knitting her stent on a blue stocking.

  • Stentor, stent′or, n. a very loud-voiced herald in the Iliad, hence any person with a remarkably loud voice: the ursine howler.

  • You fooled 'way so much time out in the orcha'd this evenin' thet yer stent hain't nigh done.

  • How did the word stint, on American lips, first convert itself into stent and then into stunt?

  • Young Stephen boldly called upon Mrs. Stent to protest against the sentence.