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Definition of stylet in English: styletnoun ˈstʌɪlɪtˈstaɪlət 1Medicine
A slender probe. - 1.1 A wire or piece of plastic run through a catheter or cannula in order to stiffen it or to clear it.
Example sentencesExamples - I can still clean the blood from an infusion needle with a wire stylet, sharpen it on an Arkansas stone, check for barbs using a cotton ball, and re-sterilize it.
- Remove stylet and confirm placement by aspirating back marrow.
- After insertion of the needle into the lymph node, the stylet was removed.
- A hematoxylin-eosin-stained slide, with the area of interest marked, was placed over the donor block, and the area of interest was aligned with the stylet.
- If the patient demonstrates an anal bellows or great toe flexion, this confirms the location of S3, and the surgeon removes the stylet of the foramen needle.
2Zoology
(in an invertebrate) a small style, especially a piercing mouthpart of an insect. Example sentencesExamples - PPV is transmitted by aphids - small, teardrop-shaped insects with a sharp mouthpart called a stylet for sucking out plant sap.
- The salivary glands, stylets, and sucking pharynx are known as the buccal apparatus.
- In other softbodied worms, sclerotized structures, such as copulatory stylets, provide important characters that can be seen in whole mounts, but acoels generally lack such features.
- Mites damage ferns by puncturing the edges of fern fronds with their tube-like stylets and other mouthparts, sucking up the nutritious contents of frond cells.
- They are equipped with two or three rings of cuticular hooks and terminal stylets with which they are able to penetrate soft epithelia of their hosts.
Origin Late 17th century: from French stilet, from Italian stiletto (see stiletto). Definition of stylet in US English: styletnounˈstaɪlətˈstīlət 1Medicine
A slender probe. - 1.1 A wire or piece of plastic run through a catheter or cannula in order to stiffen it or to clear it.
Example sentencesExamples - A hematoxylin-eosin-stained slide, with the area of interest marked, was placed over the donor block, and the area of interest was aligned with the stylet.
- After insertion of the needle into the lymph node, the stylet was removed.
- Remove stylet and confirm placement by aspirating back marrow.
- If the patient demonstrates an anal bellows or great toe flexion, this confirms the location of S3, and the surgeon removes the stylet of the foramen needle.
- I can still clean the blood from an infusion needle with a wire stylet, sharpen it on an Arkansas stone, check for barbs using a cotton ball, and re-sterilize it.
2Zoology
(in an invertebrate) a small style, especially a piercing mouthpart of an insect. Example sentencesExamples - They are equipped with two or three rings of cuticular hooks and terminal stylets with which they are able to penetrate soft epithelia of their hosts.
- The salivary glands, stylets, and sucking pharynx are known as the buccal apparatus.
- Mites damage ferns by puncturing the edges of fern fronds with their tube-like stylets and other mouthparts, sucking up the nutritious contents of frond cells.
- In other softbodied worms, sclerotized structures, such as copulatory stylets, provide important characters that can be seen in whole mounts, but acoels generally lack such features.
- PPV is transmitted by aphids - small, teardrop-shaped insects with a sharp mouthpart called a stylet for sucking out plant sap.
Origin Late 17th century: from French stilet, from Italian stiletto (see stiletto). |