stent

As nouns the difference between stent and null

is that stent is a slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure or stent can be (archaic) an allotted portion; a stint while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb stent

is (archaic) to keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.

As nouns the difference between stent and bypass

is that stent is a slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure or stent can be (archaic) an allotted portion; a stint while bypass is a road that passes around something, such as a residential area.

As verbs the difference between stent and bypass

is that stent is (archaic) to keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint while bypass is to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.

As nouns the difference between stent and balloon

is that stent is a slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure or stent can be (archaic) an allotted portion; a stint while balloon is an inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.

As verbs the difference between stent and balloon

is that stent is (archaic) to keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint while balloon is to increase or expand rapidly.

As nouns the difference between pillar and stent

is that pillar is (architecture) a large post, often used as supporting architecture while stent is a slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure or stent can be (archaic) an allotted portion; a stint.

As verbs the difference between pillar and stent

is that pillar is to provide with pillars or added strength as if from pillars while stent is (archaic) to keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.

As nouns the difference between stent and scaffold

is that stent is a slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure or stent can be (archaic) an allotted portion; a stint while scaffold is a structure made of scaffolding, for workers to stand on while working on a building.

As verbs the difference between stent and scaffold

is that stent is (archaic) to keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint while scaffold is to set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.

As nouns the difference between stent and graft

is that stent is a slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure or stent can be (archaic) an allotted portion; a stint while graft is (label) a small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it the two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit or graft can be (graff) ("canal") or graft can be (label) work; labor.

As verbs the difference between stent and graft

is that stent is (archaic) to keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint while graft is (label) to insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon or graft can be to work.

As nouns the difference between endoprosthesis and stent

is that endoprosthesis is an internal prosthesis while stent is a slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure or stent can be (archaic) an allotted portion; a stint.

As a verb stent is

(archaic) to keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.

As verbs the difference between shunt and stent

is that shunt is (obsolete|uk|dialect) to turn away or aside while stent is (archaic) to keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.

As nouns the difference between shunt and stent

is that shunt is a switch on a railway while stent is a slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure or stent can be (archaic) an allotted portion; a stint.

As a noun stent is

a slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure or stent can be (archaic) an allotted portion; a stint.

As a verb stent is

(archaic) to keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.