Main Difference
The main difference between Stent and Stint is that the Stent is a metal or plastic tube inserted into the lumen of an anatomic vessel or duct to keep the passageway open, and stenting is the placement of a stent and Stint is a type of bird.
Stent
In medicine, a stent is a metal or plastic tube inserted into the lumen of an anatomic vessel or duct to keep the passageway open, and stenting is the placement of a stent. There is a wide variety of stents used for different purposes, from expandable coronary, vascular and biliary stents, to simple plastic stents used to allow the flow of urine between kidney and bladder. “Stent” is also used as a verb to describe the placement of such a device, particularly when a disease such as atherosclerosis has pathologically narrowed a structure such as an artery.
A stent should be differentiated from a shunt. A shunt is a tube that connects two previously unconnected parts of the body to allow fluid to flow between them. Stents and shunts can be made of similar materials but perform two different tasks.
Stint
A stint is one of several very small waders in the paraphyletic “Calidris” assemblage – often separated in Erolia – which in North America are known as peeps. They are scolopacid waders much similar in ecomorphology to their distant relatives, the charadriid plovers.
Some of these birds are difficult to identify because of the similarity between species, and various breeding, non-breeding, juvenile, and moulting plumages. In addition, some plovers are also similarly patterned, especially in winter. With a few exceptions, stints usually have a fairly stereotypical color pattern, being brownish above and lighter – usually white – on much of the underside. They often have a lighter supercilium above brownish cheeks.
Stent (noun)
A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.
Stent (noun)
An allotted portion; a stint.
Stent (verb)
To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.
Stent (verb)
To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
Stent (verb)
To stint; to stop; to cease.
Stint (noun)
A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.
“He had a stint in jail.”
Stint (noun)
limit; bound; restraint; extent
Stint (noun)
Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
Stint (noun)
Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
Stint (verb)
To stop (an action); cease, desist.
Stint (verb)
To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
Stint (verb)
To be sparing or mean.
“The next party you throw, don’t stint on the beer.”
Stint (verb)
To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
Stint (verb)
To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
Stint (verb)
To mares.
Stent (noun)
a splint placed temporarily inside a duct, canal, or blood vessel to aid healing or relieve an obstruction.
Stent (noun)
an impression or cast of a part or body cavity, used to maintain pressure so as to promote healing, especially of a skin graft.
Stent (noun)
a substance used in dentistry for taking impressions of the teeth.
Stent (noun)
an assessment of property made for purposes of taxation
“it was recorded in the stent book”
Stent (noun)
the amount or value assessed; a tax
“the next stent is to pay 5 sterling to Allexr”
Stent (verb)
assess and charge (a person or a community) for purposes of taxation
“stent the Parish of Kildaltan in the ascertained sum”
Stint (verb)
supply a very ungenerous or inadequate amount of (something)
“stowage room hasn’t been stinted”
Stint (verb)
restrict (someone) in the amount of something, especially money, given or permitted
“to avoid having to stint yourself, budget in advance”
Stint (verb)
be very economical or mean about spending or providing something
“he doesn’t stint on wining and dining”
Stint (noun)
a person’s fixed or allotted period of work
“his varied career included a stint as a magician”
Stint (noun)
limitation of supply or effort
“a collector with an eye for quality and the means to indulge it without stint”
Stint (noun)
a small short-legged sandpiper of northern Eurasia and Alaska, with a brownish back and white underparts.