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stenting

stenting

1 4.1
A medical operation that puts a small tube in a blood vessel to keep it open
  • noun
  • /ˈstɛntɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : colocación de stent
  • After the heart surgery, he needed stenting to ensure proper blood flow through the damaged vessel.
  • nasopharyngeal stenting
  • coronary stenting
  • renal stenting

Examples

  • There is no net benefit of endarterectomy or stenting.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Endoscopic options include dilation, stenting, and laser therapy.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Advances in stenting material will be ongoing, as will changes in our understanding of the biochemical basis of this process.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Two patients underwent nasopharyngeal stenting for 8 and 24 hours following the initial otolaryngology consultation.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Endoscopic stenting results in less procedural mortality, a shorter hospital stay, and a better cost-effectiveness ratio.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Two patients exhibited enough symptomatic local soft tissue obstruction to warrant nasopharyngeal stenting at the time of the initial consultation.

    Academic text (1995)
  • When the disease had stabilized, the laryngeal airway was restored following open surgical excision and stenting.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Carotid stenting soon threatened to displace the long-established and well-worked-out technique of carotid endarterectomy.

    Academic text (2017)
  • The doctor explained that stenting is essential to keep the blocked artery open after the procedure.

  • They decided on stenting as the best option to relieve the pressure in the patient's narrowed passage.

Antonyms

38 4.1

Something that blocks a pipe or blood vessel and stops flow

How Invasive

coronary bypass
  • Specialized
3 4.4
stenting
  • Specialized
1 4.1
angioplasty
  • Specialized
11 5.3

Surface Forms

stenting singular
stentings plural

Morphology

stenting = stent (semi-transparent) = stent + ing

The word is formed regularly from the verb 'stent' plus '-ing', but the resulting noun is a specialized medical procedure term.

Etymology

The word stenting comes from the name of an English dentist, Stent, whose dental putty was used to 'hold' the shape of a mouth. Later doctors used stent for anything that 'holds' a space open, so stenting is the medical act of putting a small tube to 'keep' a blood vessel or passage open.