φλέβες (phlebes)

φλέβες is an Ancient Greek form of φλέψ, meaning “vein, blood vessel”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Galen, De naturalibus facultatibus 1.6·2: … ὐρητῆρες καλοῦνται. οὗτοι γὰρ οὔτʼ ἀρτηρίαι εἰσίν, ὅτι μήτε σφύζουσι μήτʼ ἐκ δυοῖν χιτώνων συνεστήκασιν, οὔτε φλέβες, ὅτι μήθʼ αἷμα περιέχουσι μήτʼ ἔοικεν αὐτῶν ὁ χιτὼν κατά τι τῷ τῆς φλεβός· ἀλλὰ καὶ νεύρων ἐπὶ πλέον ἀφεστήκα …

All forms of φλέψ (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.