Fleams is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 149 anagrams from letters in fleams (aeflms).
1375-1425; late Middle English fleme, fleom Middle French flieme ≪ Late Latin phlebotomus, Greek phlebotómon; see phlebo-, tome
It is also used for tortoise-shell, having in that case a bevel or fleam on the front face, and no set to the teeth.
These are enlarged versions of the fleam employed in human bloodletting.
Since the specimens found in museums vary in size, it is likely that this type of fleam was used on both animals and humans.
He fumbled in his pockets as he spoke, and, as chance would it, the “fleam” (or cattle lancet) was somewhere about his dress.
The blade was positioned at right angles to the spring and case, thus adopting the basic shape of the fleam.
Frequently a veterinary spring lancet or fleam is mistaken for a human lancet, or a scarificator for an instrument of venesection.
Immediately the fleam was removed and a jet of blood came forth that was caught and measured in a container.
The operation is performed by three old women, two to hold the patient, and the third to use the fleam.
But, vein or artery, it signified little; no living blood gushed out; only a little watery moisture followed the cut of the fleam.
The hardness of the fleam metal indicated that it was carburized sufficiently to be made of steel.