stent

noun

1. A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.

   “Tiny metal sleeves placed in arteries to keep blood flowing, stents have become such a popular quick fix for clogged coronary vessels that Americans will receive more than 1.5 million of them this year.”

2. (archaic)An allotted portion; a stint.

   “The hundred-and-oneth stitch was my stent, and it's done. I'm not ever going to take the hundred and twoth. I've decided.”

verb

1. To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.
2. (archaic)To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.

   “Yet n'ould she stent / Her bitter railing and foule revilement.”

3. (archaic)To stint; to stop; to cease.

name

1. A surname.