stent

Definitions

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.