<B>phi phenomenon,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Psychology.) <DD><B> 1a. </B>the perception of movement in a moving object. <DD><B> b. </B>the movement perceived in such an object. <DD><B> 2. </B>the apparent movement perceived when several pictures or other stationary visual stimuli are presented successively at very brief intervals. </DL>
<A NAME="phiz">
<B>phiz, </B>noun, pl. <B>phizes.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) face; countenance. </DL>
<A NAME="phlebitis">
<B>phlebitis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> inflammation of a vein. </DL>
<A NAME="phlebologist">
<B>phlebologist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person skilled in phlebology. </DL>
<A NAME="phlebology">
<B>phlebology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of veins. </DL>
<A NAME="phlebosclerosis">
<B>phlebosclerosis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a thickening and hardening of the wall of a vein. </DL>
<A NAME="phlebosclerotic">
<B>phlebosclerotic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with phlebosclerosis. </DL>
<A NAME="phlebotomist">
<B>phlebotomist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who treats patients by phlebotomy. <DD><B> 2. </B>a technician who is in charge of blood transfusion or collection at a hospital or blood bank. </DL>
<A NAME="phlebotomize">
<B>phlebotomize, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-mized,</B> <B>-mizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to practice phlebotomy; bleed. </DL>
<A NAME="phlebotomy">
<B>phlebotomy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-mies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the opening of a vein to let blood; bleeding as a therapeutic device; venesection. <DD><B> 2. </B>the transfusion or collection of blood, as at a blood bank. </DL>
<A NAME="phlegethon">
<B>Phlegethon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Mythology.) the river of fire, one of the five rivers of Hades. </DL>
<A NAME="phlegm">
<B>phlegm, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the thick mucous discharge from the nose and throat that accompanies a cold or other respiratory disease. It is often an abnormally heavy discharge and is composed of mucus secreted by the mucous membranes of the respiratory passages. <DD><B> 2. </B>sluggish disposition or temperament; indifference. <BR> <I>Ex. Michael Redgrave as the air marshal is just the right mixture of phlegm and haw (Time).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>coolness; calmness. <BR> <I>Ex. The French government's only sustainers of phlegm and order appear to be the Foreign Legion (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>one of the four humors, supposedly a somewhat cold, viscous substance in the body, thought in ancient and medieval times to cause sluggishness. </DL>
<A NAME="phlegmatic">
<B>phlegmatic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>sluggish; indifferent; not easily aroused to feeling or action; apathetic. <DD><B> 2. </B>not easily excited; cool; calm. <BR> <I>Ex. He is phlegmatic; he never seems to get excited about anything.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) <DD><B> a. </B>of the nature of phlegm considered as one of the four humors. <DD><B> b. </B>abounding in phlegm. <DD><B> c. </B>producing phlegm. adv. <B>phlegmatically.</B> </DL>
<B>phlobaphene, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Chemistry.) any one of various reddish-brown substances found in the bark of the oak or in other material containing tannin. </DL>
<A NAME="phloem">
<B>phloem, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the tissue in a plant or tree through which the sap containing dissolved food materials passes downward to the stems and roots; bast. <BR> <I>Ex. The phloem carries away the sugars and proteins which are synthesized there (Fred W. Emerson).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="phloemnecrosis">
<B>phloem necrosis,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a disease of elm trees in which the phloem is destroyed and the leaves turn yellow and fall, caused by a virus carried by the leaf hopper. </DL>
<A NAME="phloemray">
<B>phloem ray,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a ray or plate of phloem between two medullary rays. </DL>
<A NAME="phlogistic">
<B>phlogistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Medicine.) inflammatory. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Old Chemistry.) having to do with or relating to phlogiston. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) <DD><B> a. </B>burning; fiery. <DD><B> b. </B>expressive of passionate anger; very heated. </DL>
<A NAME="phlogiston">
<B>phlogiston, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a supposed element causing inflammability, once thought to exist in all things that burn. </DL>
<A NAME="phlogopite">
<B>phlogopite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Mineralogy.) a magnesium mica, usually of a brownish-yellow or brownish-red color. </DL>
<A NAME="phlogosis">
<B>phlogosis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Medicine.) inflammation, especially of external parts of the body. </DL>
<A NAME="phlorhizin">
<B>phlorhizin, </B>noun. =phlorizin.</DL>
<A NAME="phloridzin">
<B>phloridzin, </B>noun. =phlorizin.</DL>
<A NAME="phlorizin">
<B>phlorizin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a bitter glucoside crystallizing in silky white needles, obtained from the bark of the root of the apple, pear, plum, and cherry, formerly used medicinally as a tonic and antimalarial. </DL>
<A NAME="phlox">
<B>phlox, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a common garden plant that has showy flower clusters of various colors. It is one of several North American herbs that comprise a genus of plants. Phlox either spreads by creeping or stands erect to a height of up to five feet. <BR> <I>Ex. By and large, however, phlox is one of the most satisfactory garden plants (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the flower of any of these plants. </DL>
<A NAME="phloxin">
<B>phloxin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a purple coal-tar dye, resembling eosin. </DL>
<A NAME="phlyctena">
<B>phlyctena</B> or <B>phlyctaena, </B>noun, pl. <B>-nae.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Medicine.) a small vesicle or blister. </DL>
<A NAME="phlyctenule">
<B>phlyctenule, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Medicine.) a minute vesicle or blister, especially upon the conjunctiva or cornea of the eye. </DL>
<A NAME="phm">
<B>Ph.M.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Master of Philosophy. </DL>
<A NAME="phobe">
<B>-phobe,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) a person who has fear, aversion, or hatred toward ______. <BR> <I>Ex. Anglophobe = a person who fears or hates England or the English.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="phobia">
<B>phobia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a persistent, abnormal, or irrational fear of a certain thing or group of things. <BR> <I>Ex. a phobia of water. She has a phobia about snakes. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, thought that in phobia the thing feared served as a symbol for some other fear (George A. Ulett).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="phobia">
<B>-phobia,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) fear, hatred, or dread of ______. <BR> <I>Ex. Francophobia = fear of the French or France. Claustrophobia = fear of enclosed rooms or narrow places.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="phobic">
<B>phobic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having or characterized by a morbid or insane fear. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with a morbid or insane fear. </DL>
<A NAME="phobos">
<B>Phobos, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the inner satellite of Mars, about eleven miles in diameter from pole to pole. It is the only satellite yet discovered that revolves around its planet faster than the planet rotates. </DL>
<A NAME="phocian">
<B>Phocian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Phocis, a region in central Greece. <DD><I>noun </I> a native or inhabitant of Phocis. </DL>
<A NAME="phocine">
<B>phocine, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with seals. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or belonging to the subfamily comprising the typical seals. </DL>
<A NAME="phocomelia">
<B>phocomelia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a congenital absence or incomplete development of the arms or legs, the hands or feet being attached close to the body; seal limb. </DL>
<A NAME="phoebe">
<B>Phoebe, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Greek Mythology.) the goddess of the moon. Phoebe was also called Artemis by the Greeks and Diana by the Romans. <DD><B> 2. </B>the moon. </DL>
<A NAME="phoebe">
<B>phoebe, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small American bird with a grayish-brown back, a yellowish-white breast, and a low crest on the head. Phoebes are flycatchers, found especially in eastern North America. There are several kinds. </DL>
<A NAME="phoebean">
<B>Phoebean, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with Phoebus or Apollo as the god of poetry. <DD><B> 2. </B>characteristic of Phoebus or Apollo as the god of poetry. </DL>
<A NAME="phoebebird">
<B>phoebe bird,</B> =phoebe.</DL>
<A NAME="phoebus">
<B>Phoebus, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Greek Mythology.) <DD><B> a. </B>Apollo, the god of the sun. <DD><B> b. </B>Apollo as the god of poetry and music. <DD><B> 2. </B>the sun. <BR> <I>Ex. Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus' gins arise (Shakespeare).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="phoenicaceous">
<B>phoenicaceous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> belonging to the palm family of plants. </DL>
<A NAME="phoenician">
<B>Phoenician, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Phoenicia, an ancient kingdom on the eastern Mediterranean, its people, or their language. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>one of the people of Phoenicia or of a Phoenician colony. <BR> <I>Ex. The invention of the alphabet by the Phoenicians more than three thousand years ago was one of the greatest single contributions to the cultural development of mankind (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the extinct Semitic language of Phoenicia. </DL>
<A NAME="phoenicis">
<B>Phoenicis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> genitive of <B>Phoenix.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="phoenix">
<B>phoenix, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a mythical bird, the only one of its kind, said to live 500 or many thousands of years, to burn itself on a funeral pyre of herbs and to rise again from a small worm in the ashes, fresh and beautiful, for another long life. It is often used as a symbol of immortality. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) that which rises from the ashes of its predecessor. Also, <B>phenix.</B> </DL>
