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stylet

/stahy-lit/US // ˈstaɪ lɪt //UK // (ˈstaɪlɪt) //

测针,小针筒,小钢炮,小钢针

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Definitions

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

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Examples

  • 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.