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Fleam
A fleam, also flem, flew, flue, fleame, or phleam, was a handheld instrument used for bloodletting. History This name for handheld venipuncture devices first appears in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts around 1000. The name is most likely derived from phlebotome: ''phlebos'', Greek for blood vessel and ''tome'', meaning to cut. These instruments are the progression from the early use of fish teeth, sharpened stones, and thorns used to penetrate blood vessels. The earliest known examples are made of bronze with a myrtle-leaf shape to the blade. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the German ''Fliete'' and French ''flamettes'' were developed. These devices with their right-angle blades are the earliest forms of what collectors now refer to as the fleam. Use While there are reports of this type of instrument being used in humans, it is more likely that these were reserved for veterinary use, while the common thumb lancet was the instrument of choice for use in people. A survey of 100 ...
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Bloodletting
Bloodletting (or blood-letting) was the deliberate withdrawal of blood from a patient to prevent or cure illness and disease. Bloodletting, whether by a physician or by leeches, was based on an ancient system of medicine in which blood and other bodily fluids were regarded as "Humorism, humors" that had to remain in proper balance to maintain health. It was the most common medical practice performed by surgeons from Ancient history, antiquity until the late 19th century, a span of over 2,000 years. In Europe, the practice continued to be relatively common until the end of the 19th century.B.) Anderson, Julie, Emm Barnes, and Enna Shackleton. "The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination [Hardcover]." The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination: Julie Anderson, Emm Barnes, Emma Shackleton: : The Ilex Press Limited, 2013. The practice has now been abandoned by modern-style medicine for all except a few very specific medical condition ...
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Anglo-Saxon
The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a Cultural identity, cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced their origins to Germanic peoples, Germanic settlers who became one of the most important cultural groups in Britain by the 5th century. The Anglo-Saxon period in Britain is considered to have started by about 450 and ended in 1066, with the Norman conquest of England, Norman Conquest. Although the details of Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, their early settlement and History of Anglo-Saxon England, political development are not clear, by the 8th century an Anglo-Saxon cultural identity which was generally called had developed out of the interaction of these settlers with the existing Romano-British culture. By 1066, most of the people of what is now England spoke Old English, and were considered English. Viking and Norman invasions chang ...
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Bronze
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals (such as phosphorus) or metalloids (such as arsenic or silicon). These additions produce a range of alloys some of which are harder than copper alone or have other useful properties, such as strength, ductility, or machinability. The archaeological period during which bronze was the hardest metal in widespread use is known as the Bronze Age. The beginning of the Bronze Age in western Eurasia is conventionally dated to the mid-4th millennium BCE (~3500 BCE), and to the early 2nd millennium BCE in China; elsewhere it gradually spread across regions. The Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age, which started about 1300 BCE and reaching most of Eurasia by about 500 BCE, although bronze continued to be much more widely used than it is in modern times. Because historica ...
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Flag Of The Royal College Of Surgeons In Ireland
A flag is a piece of fabric (most often rectangular) with distinctive colours and design. It is used as a symbol, a signalling device, or for decoration. The term ''flag'' is also used to refer to the graphic design employed, and flags have evolved into a general tool for rudimentary signalling and identification, especially in environments where communication is challenging (such as the maritime environment, where semaphore is used). Many flags fall into groups of similar designs called flag families. The study of flags is known as "vexillology" from the Latin , meaning "flag" or "banner". National flags are patriotic symbols with widely varied interpretations that often include strong military associations because of their original and ongoing use for that purpose. Flags are also used in messaging, advertising, or for decorative purposes. Some military units are called "flags" after their use of flags. A ''flag'' (Arabic: ) is equivalent to a brigade in Arab countries. In ...
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Laminitis
Laminitis is a disease of the feet of ungulates, found mostly in horses and cattle involving inflammation of the laminae. Clinical signs include foot tenderness progressing to inability to walk, increased digital pulses, and increased temperature in the hooves. Severe cases with outwardly visible clinical signs are known by the colloquial term ''#Rotation, sinking, and founder, founder'', and progression of the disease will lead to perforation of the coffin bone through the sole of the hoof or being unable to stand up, requiring Animal euthanasia, euthanasia. Laminae The bones of the hoof are suspended within the Anatomical terms of location#Other directional terms, axial hooves of ungulates by layers of modified skin cells, known as laminae or lamellae, which suspend the bony column from the hoof wall, contributing to shock absorption during locomotion. In horses, there are about 550–600 pairs of primary epidermis (zoology), epidermal laminae, each with 150–200 secondary la ...
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Sanderson Fleam
Sanderson may refer to: Places * Sanderson, Florida, a town in the United States * Sanderson, Texas, a census-designated place in the United States * Sanderson, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States * Sanderson, Northern Territory, an area of Darwin, Australia * Electoral division of Sanderson, in Australia * Sanderson Farms, a US-based poultry producer * Sanderson High School (Texas) * Sanderson High School, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland * Sanderson Hotel in London People * Sanderson (surname), people with the surname ''Sanderson'' * Sanderson, a pixie who works with Head Pixie in the cartoon '' The Fairly OddParents'' Other uses * Arthur Sanderson & Sons Ltd, a British fabric and wallpaper manufacturer * Angus-Sanderson, an English automobile manufacturer (1919–1927) * Sanderson, makers of the first highly flexible modern view cameras See also * Jesse O. Sanderson High School, Raleigh, North Carolina USA * Sanders (surnam ...
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Instruments Used In General Surgery
There are many different Surgery, surgical specialties, some of which require specific kinds of Surgical instrument, surgical instruments to perform. General surgery is a specialty focused on the abdomen; the Thyroid, thyroid gland; Disease, diseases involving skin, Breast, breasts, and various Soft tissue, soft tissues; Trauma surgery, trauma; Peripheral artery disease, peripheral vascular disease; Hernia, hernias; and Endoscopy, endoscopic procedures. Instruments can be classified in many ways, but, broadly speaking, there are five kinds of instruments. # Cutting and dissecting instruments # Grasping or holding instruments # Hemostasis, Hemostatic instruments # Retractor (medicine), Retractors # Tissue unifying instruments and materials Instruments used in surgery are: References

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