(n.) A kind of dagger, -- usually a slender one with a triangular or square blade.
(v. t.) To pierce with a poniard; to stab.
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Stylet
Definition:
(n.) A small poniard; a stiletto.
(n.) An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum.
(n.) A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape and prevent clogging.
(n.) Any small, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain Infusoria.
Example Sentences:
(1) The use of wire stylets to facilitate passage of these tubes has increased the chances of unrecognized tracheal intubations, particularly in obtunded patients.
(2) A nasotracheal intubation using the stylet component of a recently introduced airway device, the Augustine Guide, was successfully performed.
(4) The first lighted stylet was described some 30 years ago, and the method of transillumination as an aid in difficult intubation developed over the following years.
(5) This is believed to be the first reported use of this method using the Augustine stylet.
(6) There is controversy as to whether angiographic needles without stylets produce more arterial damage than those with stylets.
(7) They suck, by means of a stylet acting as a piston, all components of the muscle cell which develops into a nurse cell, into their oral cavity.
(8) At operation the cranial part of the stylet lay in the fourth ventricle, compressing the facial nerve as well as the nucleus of the abducens nerve.
(9) With the aid of a fiberoptic laryngoscope and stylet within an endotracheal tube, a video camera, a monitor, and a recorder to correlate the effects of various manipulations of the airway on access to the trachea, a suitable approach was devised.
(10) X marks the spot where sea slug A gently inserts its penile stylet into sea slug B's forehead.
(11) The metallic-weighted tips and stiffening introducing stylets create the potential for misplacement with potentially serious consequences.
(12) Although not statistically significant, our results suggest a useful role for the lighted stylet in nasotracheal intubation in the apneic patient.
(13) The successful use of guided nasotracheal intubation using a flexible lighted stylet is described, and its application to the critically injured patient is emphasized.
(14) An optical stylet was developed which can be inserted into an endotracheal tube, and the passage through the vocal cords and position of the cuff in the trachea could be controlled visually.
(15) PVDF receives acoustic energy from the US scanner and transmits an electrical signal through the stylet and a shielded cable to the scanner, which results in appearance of a bright echo on the monitor at the location of the needle tip.
(16) Clinical experience with a method of guided orotracheal intubation using a rigid-wire lighted stylet prompted us to develop a technique to confirm correct intratracheal placement of an endotracheal tube using a new flexible lighted stylet designed for nasotracheal intubation.
(17) Both a unique locking stylet to allow traction without lead elongation and a sheath to dilate and detach adherent fibrous tissue are needed for consistent success.
(18) When a stylet was inserted the proximal echo disappeared as the diffracting edges decreased to a single echo.
(19) Reentry into the bladder is effected by a perforating guidewire (transseptal stylet).
(20) A miniaturized motor in a 20-mL syringe produces low-speed rotation of the distal helical stylet for tissue acquisition.