Plural of fleam; multiple surgical lancets or bloodletting blades used in historical medical practice.
Regular plural of fleam, used in medical and historical contexts describing sets of surgical instruments.
Barber-surgeons would have had sets of fleams in different sizes—each blade for a specific vein or artery—showing that even superstitious medicine developed specialized tools!
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