φλέψ

English (LSJ)

ἡ, gen. φλεβός: also masc., φλέβες οἰδαίνοντες (nisi leg. οἰδαίνοντος) Nonn.D.47.111:—

   A blood-vessel, whether vein or artery, Il.13.546, Hdt.4.2, 187, A.Fr.230, S.Ph.825; distd. from artery, Hp. Alim.31; φλὲψ κοίλη vena cava, Id.Vict.1.9, E.Ion1011, Arist.HA 497a14; also called φ. μεγάλη, μεγίστη, ib.495b7, 496a26; φ. σπληνῖτις, ἡπατῖτις, ib.512a6; φλέβες σπερματίτιδες Diog.Apoll.6 (also used of the ureters, Hp.Oss.4); γονίμη φλέψ membrum virile, AP 6.218 (Alc.), cf. Neophro (?) in PLit.Lond.77Fr.2.7: so abs., APl.4.261 (Leon.); φλεβὸς τροπωτήρ Xenarch.1.8; φλέβα σχάζειν to open a vein, X.HG5.4.58; λύειν Posidon.72J.; οὗ ἂν ἡ φ. σφύζῃ where the vein throbs, Hp.Epid.2.5.16; αἱ φ. ἐξανίστανται Luc.Bis Acc. 11.    2 vein of metal, X.Vect.1.5, Arist.GC326b35, D.S.2.36, D.P. 1104: spring of water, Arist.Pr.935b10; αἱ φ. τῆς πηγῆς Plb.34.9.7, cf. Supp.Epigr.4.467.5 (Didyma, iii A. D.), Gp.2.5.6.    3 vein in plants, Arist.PA668a25, Thphr.HP1.2.1.