(v. t.) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
(v. i.) To stint; to stop; to cease.
(n.) An allotted portion; a stint.
Example Sentences:
(1) During placement of the Fletcher suit one of the ureters is catheterized by a special stent which appears on the X-rays control used for dosimetry.
(2) In one patient with a B-II stomach, the stent could only be inserted by the percutaneous transhepatic route.
(3) There were no cases of stent migration or occlusion due to encrustation of bile.
(4) Veryan has developed a stent – a metal mesh tube inserted in an artery – that mimics the natural swirl of the blood flow, which researchers have found improves outcomes for patients with circulation problems.
(5) The insertion of stent was succeeded in all 4 cases, and the improvement of clinical symptoms and elevation of ankle pressure index were observed.
(6) Nine patients had variably significant ductal changes attributable to pancreatic duct stents.
(7) Titanium-nickel alloy composed of 50% by weight of each metal has unique thermal shape-memory properties, with a transition temperature of 20 degrees C. Each stent consists of one wire with a diameter of 0.9 mm.
(8) Between June 1988 and July 1991, 464 new device interventions (Palmaz-Schatz stent or Simpson directional atherectomy) were performed in 410 patients.
(9) The stent was applied without general anesthesia under mild i.v.
(10) Clogging of endoscopic stents necessitates their replacement in many patients with malignant obstructive jaundice and limits their use in benign strictures.
(11) The stents were inserted by using a 10-12 Fr catheter.
(12) Intravascular stenting has been established as a useful treatment in adults with coronary and peripheral vascular disease.
(13) A variety of interventional endovascular instruments have been produced and used in a wide field of pathologies: balloons for proximal clamping, distal embolization by particles, arterial desobstruction by seeking devices, propping of vascular lumen by stenting, in situ infusion of drugs (fibrinolysis), filters, foreign body retrieval systems.
(14) In spite of the low complication rate, the advisability of clinical application of stents should always be critically considered before the final decision is made.
(15) Additionally, there is promise that stents will enhance the percutaneous treatment of renal artery ostial lesions, infrainguinal arterial lesions, and strictures in large veins.
(16) The average period of follow-up is 65 days, the longest 105 days (silicone stents) respectively 306 days (metallic stents).
(17) We believe that treatment of tracheal stenosis using dilation with stents is a reasonably good alternative in patients whose general condition makes them poor risks for major tracheal surgery.
(18) Treatment by either antegrade placement of ureteral stents or abdominal exploration with deligation or ureteroneocystotomy was successful in all cases.
(19) Antibiotic suppression and stent changes should not be used routinely but rather they should be individualized.
(20) An expandable metal stent inserted via a long term tracheostomy successfully relieved life threatening respiratory obstruction due to benign tracheal stenosis.
Stunt
Definition:
(v. t.) To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.
(n.) A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
(n.) Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.
Example Sentences:
(1) North Wiltshire MP James Gray said he was "very glad" Islam4UK had abandoned its march, which he said had been shown to be a "media stunt".
(2) The more frequent causes of a stunted growth were ruled out previously (systemic and chronic diseases, metabolic disorders, genetic alterations, etc.).
(3) Afghan officials in the past have expressed fears that soldiers sent to Pakistan could be recruited as spies or that their careers would be stunted by the deep hostility that Afghans harbour towards Pakistan.
(4) Uptake was also investigated in 17 children with right-to-left cardiac stunts and 18 children with left-to-right shunts undergoing corrective or palliative cardiac surgery.
(5) "No, it's a stunt, a fraud," cry Lib Dems, Clegg's leftie critics included.
(6) The show discovered Susan Boyle and Paul Potts, but more recently has become synonymous with dancing dogs (controversially so last year, when it emerged the winner had used a stunt double ).
(7) Malnutrition is the underlying cause of death for at least 3.1 million children a year, accounting for 45% of all deaths among children under the age of five and stunting growth among a further 165 million, according to a set of Lancet reports published last week.
(8) Thomas Mazetti and Hannah Frey, the two Swedes behind the stunt, said they wanted to show support for Belarussian human rights activists and to embarrass the country's military, a pillar of Lukashenko's power.
(9) The results also revealed that stunting, wasting and stunting together and overweight were more common in young workers who were both anaemic and had evidence of parasitic infection than those who were anaemic only or had parasitic infection only.
(10) Words like "trivialisation" and "stunt" were bandied about, especially after the Channel 4 documentary that dwelt as much on the players as the results.
(11) The stunted and wasted child is likely to be at greater risk than a similarly stunted but normally proportioned or overweight child--both could be underweight for age.
(12) Stunted children were randomly assigned to supplementation or not.
(13) The aim of this study is to identify fetal organs and developmental periods sensitive to stunting induced by maternal exposure to dexamethasone (DEX).
(14) At a press conference in New York , Norman Siegel, lawyer for Eunice Huthart, Angelina Jolie's sometime stunt double, said they had spoken to a number of people who claim they have been hacked by journalists working for News Corp.
(15) An editorial in the Saturday edition of the English language Global Times, which is run by the Communist party, said the students’ travel plans were little more than a publicity stunt.
(16) Like his wind turbine though, discreetly taken down some months later, many people are now concluding that Cameron's promise to lead the " greenest government ever " was little more than a fraudulent gimmick, a PR stunt from a man schooled in the PR industry.
(17) A performance art group called the Centre for Political Beauty claimed to have organised the stunt.
(18) A recent multi-country study showed that for every 10% increase in levels of stunting among children, the proportion of children reaching the final grade of school dropped by almost 8%.
(19) It follows a stunt by Spanish police divers who were photographed showing the flag while inspecting the controversial concrete reef.
(20) The effect of malabsorption syndrome (stunting or runting syndrome) on the thyroid function of broilers was investigated in control and inoculated broilers from 1 to 29 days of age.