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What is a stylet?

What is a stylet? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A slender medical probe or device.
  2. (zoology) A stiff, slender organ of an animal.
  3. (botany) A style of a plant's flower.
  4. A stiletto or poniard.
  5. An engraving tool, a stylus.
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Nematodes feed by use of a stylet with which they puncture cells and suck out the contents.
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.
Leaves opposite, abruptly pinnate with a stylet in place of the odd leaflet.
For each insect, there are unique changes in waveforms from ingestion, salivation, and stylet movement.
After insertion of the needle into the lymph node, the stylet was removed.
Balbiani describes the buccal cavity as containing a protractile stylet.

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