φλεβός (phlebos)

φλεβός is an Ancient Greek form of φλέψ, meaning “vein, blood vessel”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Ion 1011: κοίλης μὲν ὅστις φλεβὸς ἀπέσταξεν φόνῳ

Galen, De naturalibus facultatibus 1.6·2: … 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 ἀφεστήκασιν ἢ τῶν εἰρημένων. τί ποτʼ οὖν εἰσιν; ἐρωτᾷ τις, ὥσπερ ἀναγκαῖον ὂν ἅπαν …

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.