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Date "STENTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references) |
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Health | Devices that provide support for tubular structures that are being anastomosed or for body cavities during skin grafting. (references) |
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Health | Stents are small devices inserted through the urethra to the narrowed area and allowed to expand, like a spring. (references) | |
Treatment options in such patients include oral bile acid therapy, mechanical obliteration or dissolution of stones by percutaneously or endoscopically positioned catheters or extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, and techniques that facilitate stone egress, such as endoscopic sphincterotomy or percutaneously/endoscopically placed biliary stents and cholecystostomy. (references) | ||
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| "STENTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "STENTS" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 34 | 59,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Words ending with "STENTS": existents. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-s-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: nests, netts, setts, stets, tents, tests. | |
-2 letters: ness, nest, nets, nett, sent, sets, sett, stet, tens, tent, test, tets. | |
-3 letters: ens, ess, net, sen, set, ten, tet. | |
-4 letters: en, es, et, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-s-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: tensest, testons. | |
+2 letters: antsiest, contests, dentists, entrusts, entwists, instates, nastiest, nutsiest, satinets, scantest, settings, sextants, stentors, sternest, stinters, stoniest, stoutens, students, tartness, tautness, tennists, tentless, testoons, tintless, titaness, twinsets, unstates. | |
+3 letters: anisettes, antepasts, astatines, battiness, castanets, cattiness, centrists, chestnuts, dottiness, existents, fattiness, fistnotes, honestest, insetters, insistent, intensest, interests, jettisons, lutenists, nattiness, nepotists, noisettes, nuttiness, pettiness, petuntses, potstones, resistant, sanitates, scantiest, scientist, sentients, setenants, settlings, silentest, siltstone, slatterns, snootiest, snottiest, snoutiest, sostenuti, sostenuto, squintest, stagnates, stanchest, stannites, statesman, statesmen, sternites, sternmost, sternpost, stibnites, stingiest, stinkiest, stoutness, straitens, strangest, strengths, strongest, tacitness, taintless, tastiness, tattiness, teensiest, tenorists, tensities, teosintes, testiness, tetanises, tetanuses, tightness, tinstones, topstones, transects, transepts, trapnests, triteness, tungstens, unsettles, vestments, wittiness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 54 45 4E 54 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... - . -. - ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010100 01000101 01001110 01010100 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S T E N T S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0054 0045 004E 0054 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)535439485453 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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