flēmĭna

I. a bloody swelling or congestion of blood about the ankles; flemina dicuntur, cum ex labore viae sanguis defluit circa talos, Paul. ex Fest. p. 89 Müll.: lassitudine invaserunt misera in genua flemina, Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 5: bryonia in jumento homineque flemina sanat, Plin. 23, 1, 17, § 28.