The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσκλήρωσις“hardening”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromφλέψ“vein”
- English todayphlebosclerotic
From phlebosclerosis + -ic, itself from international scientific vocabulary components: • Ancient Greek φλέψ (phléps, “vein”) (stem: φλεβ- (phleb-)) + • Ancient Greek σκλήρωσις (sklḗrōsis, “hardening”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekφλέψ all →
phlebo-
Ancient Greekσκλήρωσις all →
sclerosis
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.