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Stylet
  • (n.) A small poniard; a stiletto.
  • (n.) A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape and prevent clogging.
  • (n.) An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum.
  • (n.) Any small, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain Infusoria.

    OPTED is a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of "The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. (See Project Gutenburg.)


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