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UK
/stˈɛnt/
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[ US /ˈstɛnt/ ]
[ US /ˈstɛnt/ ]
NOUN
- a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis
How To Use stent In A Sentence
- Of all types of commercially based American music, jazz is the one that has most consistently fostered musical artistry on a high level.
- The study predicted that, by 2022, the country would still require $7.2 billion in foreign aid a year—and that assumes an upsurge of so-far inexistent mining-industry revenue and no dramatic deterioration of security. Afghanistan Seeks Enduring Support
- So, the system of existential graphs actually requires three dimensions for its representations, although the third dimension in which the torus is embedded can usually be represented in two dimensions by the use of pictorial devices that Peirce called “fornices” or “tunnel-bridges” and by the use of identificational devices that Peirce called Nobody Knows Nothing
- More extensive staging revealed multiple vertebral lesions consistent with metastases, but no spread to abdominal viscera was visualized.
- The four stresses of the Anglo-Saxon verse are retained, and as much thesis and anacrusis is allowed as is consistent with a regular cadence. Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem
- First, it was a good thing that the negotiation process was led by a pair of egocentric men whose machismo instincts somehow consistently outweighed common courtesy, common dignity and common sense.
- Our participation in the policy and political arenas must be consistent and reliable.
- Finally, we indicate the source of such inconsistent analysis, namely, an effect due to the geometry of tumors, and how to fix it.
- Actions that are consistent with the dignity and autonomy of moral agents are intrinsically good.
- Some groups consistently face discrimination: age is one mode of socially structured disadvantage.