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stylet

[ stahy-lit ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a stiletto or dagger.
any similar sharp-pointed instrument.
Medicine/Medical.
1. a probe.
2. a wire run through the length of a catheter, cannula, or needle to make it rigid or to clear it.

stylet

/ ˈstaɪlɪt /

surgery
1. a wire for insertion into a flexible cannula or catheter to maintain its rigidity or patency during passage
2. a slender probe
zoology any small pointed bristle-like part

Origin of stylet¹

1690–1700; < French < Middle French stilet < Italian stiletto stiletto; -y- < Latin stylus. See style, stylus

Origin of stylet¹

C17: from French stilet, from Old Italian stiletto ; influenced in spelling by Latin stylus style

To locate a suitable place to penetrate her host, the female mosquito vibrates her stylets, a bit like starting up a drill.

It’s on the end of this stylet that receptors AsOr8 and AaOr49 are located.

We then let the shutter fall, when the little stylet will inscribe a certain number of vibrations.

Leaves abruptly pinnate, the place of the odd leaflet taken by a stylet.

Leaves opposite, abruptly pinnate with a stylet in place of the odd leaflet.

Leaves 1½–2° long, opposite, abruptly pinnate, a thick stylet taking the place of the odd leaflet.

It contained three instruments all of silver, a cyathiscomele, a grooved director, and a plain double-ended stylet.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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