stylet
/stahy-lit/US // ˈstaɪ lɪt //UK // (ˈstaɪlɪt) //
测针,小针筒,小钢炮,小钢针
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n.名词 noun
- 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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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.
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