Stent vs Balloon - What's the difference?
stent | balloon |
A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.
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(archaic) An allotted portion; a stint.
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(archaic) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
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(archaic) To stint; to stop; to cease.
An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
Such an object as a child’s toy.
Such an object designed to transport people through the air.
(medicine) A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
A speech bubble.
A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
(architecture) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
(chemistry) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
(pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell.
A game played with a large inflated ball.
(engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
To increase or expand rapidly.
To go up or voyage in a balloon.
To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
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.stent
English
(wikipedia stent)Etymology 1
Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent.Noun
(en noun)New York Times
- 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.
Etymology 2
See stint.Noun
(en noun)citation, genre=Fiction , publisher=Project Gutenberg , isbn= , page= , passage=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
(en verb)- Yet n'ould she stent / Her bitter railing and foule revilement.
Anagrams
* ----balloon
English
Noun
(wikipedia balloon) (en noun)- the balloon of St. Paul's Cathedral in London
Synonyms
* (inflatable object) * toy balloon * (transport) hot-air balloon, Montgolfier * (in medicine) * (speech bubble) speech bubble, fumettoDerived terms
* barrage balloon * balloon animal * balloon-back * balloon barrage * balloon clock * balloon club * balloon flower * ballooning * balloonist * balloon sail * balloon tyre * balloon vine * go down like a lead balloon * hot-air balloon * pilot balloon * trial balloon * weather balloon * when the balloon goes upVerb
(en verb)- His stomach ballooned from eating such a large meal.
- Prices will balloon if we don't act quickly.