stylet

A slender, pointed instrument or weapon, such as a stiletto.

A surgical probe.

A fine wire that is run through a catheter, cannula, or hollow needle to keep it stiff or clear of debris.

A small, stiff, needlelike organ or appendage, such as a piercing mouthpart of an aphid or other hemipteran insect.

A slender pointed instrument; a stiletto.

In surgery, the perforator of a trocar; the stiffening wire or rod in a flexible catheter; sometimes, a probe. Also stilette.

In zoology, a little style; also, a style; specifically, in entomology, one of the second of the t hree pairs of rhabdites or appendages of the abdominal sternites entering into the formation of the ovipositor. See cut under Arctisca.

Specifically— Same as cercopod. Compare style, 2 .

In fishes, one of the slender rays of bone on or above the base of the ribs; the epipleural.