stent

About 1.22 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.
2. verb To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.
3. noun An allotted portion; a stint.
4. verb To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
5. verb To stint; to stop; to cease.

Similar words

catheterization catheter restenosis plant pigtail expandable frame cypher eluting cannula

Often followed by

placement is implantation restenosis in and graft was thrombosis

Word family

stents