The thickening of the cuticular lining of buccal cavity; buccal capsule may be large, small, vestigial or absent. In some nematodes, the cuticle lining within the buccal capsule may be modified to be chitinous teeth or cutting plates as in Ancylostomatidae or a stylet as in Trichinelloidea.... buccal capsule
(stylet, stylus) n. 1. a slender probe. 2. a wire placed in the lumen of a catheter to give it rigidity while the instrument is passed along a body canal (such as the urethra).... stilet
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