stenting

stenting (countable and uncountable, plural stentings)

1. (medicine) The surgical act of placing a stent, or supporting tube, into an artery, esophagus, or other passage or conduit in the body.

   The chest pains were relieved by coronary stenting.

stenting

1. present participle and gerund of stent

• stenton

stenting (plural stentings)

1. (UK, dialect) An opening in a wall in a coal mine.
   • 1844, David Thomas Ansted, Geology, Introductory, Descriptive and Practical:

     It is usual , in such case , to drive two parallel headways , which communicate with one another by cross - cuts , called stentings, through which the air being conducted , a circulation is immediately established

• “stenting”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• nettings, snetting, tentings