Word: stylet
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...tiny plant hopper named Delphacodes striatellus. The insect, he discovered, was not particularly fond of corn, preferring the sap of barley, wheat and oat plants during winter and wild grasses in the summer. But while moving from its winter-to summer-plant hosts, the plant hopper frequently plunged its stylet into young corn seedlings in the mistaken belief that they were wild grasses. In the process, the corn-killing viruses thriving in the insects' saliva were injected into the corn seedlings...
...surgeons are still haunted by the fear that during removal of a cataract the casing of the lens will break and spill some of its contents into the eyeball. Several ophthalmic surgeons are now using an especially small probe (cryostylet) in the eye. Inserted under local anesthesia, the stylet adheres to the cataractous lens, freezes it, and permits removal with no danger of spillage, because there is no liquid left to spill, and no damage to the remainder of the eye particularly important for patients with sight in only...
...operations, explained Dr. Freeman, this instrument "is inserted in the anteromedial [front and centre] direction to a depth of four centimetres below the surface of the cortex. The stylet is pressed in, forming a loop near the distal end of the instrument. The leucotome is rotated through one complete circle, cutting a sphere or core of white matter in the pre-frontal area about ten millimetres in diameter. The stylet is withdrawn a few millimetres thus replacing the loop within the cannula. A second core is cut at a depth of three centimetres and a third at two centimetres...
...fanfare of pressagentry saluted the sailing of a Dr. Paul Gillet of Paris* for Manhattan last week. Dr. Gillet is a nose-tickler, one who claims to cure all manner of ailments by touching a nasal nerve with a stylet and simultaneously gazing steadily into the patient's eyes...
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