stilette

When it becomes impossible to dilate or pass the canal of such a stricture by the ordinary means, it is recommended to divide the part by the lancetted stilette.

Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

A great improvement is effected on Mr. Holt's later instruments by this wire being made hollow, and fitted with a stilette, for by this means we can with certainty ascertain whether or not the instrument has been passed into the bladder.

A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874

I introduced a trocar which enter - ed the abdomen, and evacuated a small qoantity of fluid» but was stopped by a cyst of uncotnitnon firm» ness which I could not penetrate till I withdrew the stilette, and introduced through the eanula the trocar used for pnnctwing the bladder through the rectum.

Medico-Chirurgical Transanction The Medical and Chirurgical Society of London 1812