stylet

IPA: stˈaɪɫʌt

noun

  • An engraving tool, a stylus.
  • (botany) A style of a plant's flower.
  • (surgery) A slender medical probe or device.
  • (weaponry) A poniard or stiletto.
  • (zoology) A stiff, slender organ of an animal.
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Examples of "stylet" in Sentences

  • Stylet is also a medical instrument.
  • Adult males do not feed or have a stylet.
  • A stylet is employed to aid in implantation.
  • The stylet is small with well developed knobs.
  • Electrical recording of stylet penetration activities.
  • An obturator has a hub and hook similar to the stylet.
  • Modified stylet technique for tenting of amniotic membranes.
  • A fitted stylet turned the counting mechanism and a bell rang.
  • The amniocentesis needle comprises a hollow needle and a stylet.
  • The mouthparts of tardigrades and aphids are also called stylets.
  • In these groups the stylet is a hardened protrusible opening to the stomach.
  • As it is in the class Anopla, their proboscis is not armed with a barbed stylet.
  • Species parasitic on invertebrates have a slightly modified stylet of the same nature to pierce the cuticle of their prey, for the purpose of feeding on haemolymph.
  • Molecular filters in the stylet excluded mere cerebrospinal fluid, which was clear and colorless, so that all that was harvested was a concentrated solution of nanites.
  • The needle stylet was removed and a 1-mm fiber-optic micro endoscope was introduced into the needle sheath to allow direct visualization of the bipolar cord cauterization procedure.
  • The leafhopper acquires the phytoplasma while feeding by inserting its stylet a long, slender hollow feeding structure into the phloem of infected plants and withdrawing the phytoplasma with the plant sap.
  • Je tenais l'appareil de la main gauche mais c'etait sans compter sur mes super tremblements et alors arrivé a la "roue" ou l'on doit tourner le stylet le plus vite possible la c'etait meme pas la peine l'image etait pu du tout cadrée vu que ca bougeait dans tous les sens!
  • For my own use I have taken off the ratchet-locking device for all general work, to be reapplied on the rare occasions when it is required.] _Bronchoscopic and esophagoscopic grasping forceps_ are of the tubular type, that is, a stylet carrying the jaws works in a slender tube so that traction on the stylet draws the V of the open jaws into the lumen of the tube, thus causing the blades to approximate.

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