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stent
  1. Device used to maintain a bodily orifice or cavity during skin grafting, or to immobilize a skin graft after placement.
  2. Slender thread, rod, or catheter, lying within the space in the interior of a tubular structure, such as an artery or the intestine. Used to provide support during or after opening surgically, or to assure the opening of an intact but contracted lumen.
  3. A semi-rigid tube-like device used to keep an artery open after angioplasty.
 

 


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