Definition of Fleam. Meaning of Fleam. Synonyms of Fleam

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Definition of Fleam

Fleam
Fleam Fleam, n. [F. flamme, OF. flieme, fr. LL. flevotomum, phlebotomum; cf. D. vlijm. See Phlebotomy.] (Surg. & Far.) A sharp instrument used for opening veins, lancing gums, etc.; a kind of lancet. Fleam tooth, a tooth of a saw shaped like an isosceles triangle; a peg tooth. --Knight.

Meaning of Fleam from wikipedia

- A fleam, also flem, flew, flue, fleame, or phleam, was a handheld instrument used for bloodletting. This name for handheld venipuncture devices first...
- Fleam **** is a linear earthwork between Fulbourn and Balsham in Cambridgeshire, initiated some time between AD 330 and AD 510. It is three miles long...
- Anglo-Saxon, by analogy to the similar Fleam **** for which radiocarbon dating was performed in the 1990s, with Fleam ****'s earliest construction phase dated...
- sense of "allow to p**** through". Other names for the same thing include fleam (probably a leat supplying water to a mill that did not have a millpool)...
- 3 boxes, 1 plaster spreader, 1 seal, 1 spatula, 1 bowl, 1 pill tile, 1 fleam, 1 lancet, 2 syringes, 4 visiting cards, 1 receipt and engraved plate, circa...
- river is divided at this point, with some flow p****ing through the mill fleam at Clay Mills, the two arms rejoin downstream of the A38 road bridge and...
- maroon cross with the arms rounded at the ends bearing an inverted gold fleam Maroon and white are the colors traditionally ****ociated with the Medical...
- common cross-cultural traits. Blood donation Bloodstopping Cupping therapy Fleams Hematology History of medicine Humorism Leech Panacea Phlebotomy Trepanation...
- Chinthe astride a silver cross issuing from a Taeguk between two maroon fleams. All in front and below a stylized palm branch with two oak leaves proper...
- road to the border with Suffolk. Much of its western border follows the Fleam ****. It is bordered by Weston Colville to the north and east, and by Balsham...