Definition of stents:
(n) :
A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.
(v) :
(medicine) To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.
(n) :
(archaic) An allotted portion; a stint.
(v) :
(archaic) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
(v) :
(archaic) To stint; to stop; to cease.
(n) :
A surname.