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  • English Word Pharmacology Definition A treatise on the art of preparing medicines.
  • English Word Pharmacomathy Definition See Pharmacognosis.
  • English Word Pharmacon Definition A medicine or drug; also, a poison.
  • English Word Pharmacopoeia Definition A book or treatise describing the drugs, preparations, etc., used in medicine; especially, one that is issued by official authority and considered as an authoritative standard.
  • English Word Pharmacopoeia Definition A chemical laboratory.
  • English Word Pharmacopolist Definition One who sells medicines; an apothecary.
  • English Word Pharmacosiderite Definition A hydrous arsenate of iron occurring in green or yellowish green cubic crystals; cube ore.
  • English Word Pharmacy Definition The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist.
  • English Word Pharmacy Definition A place where medicines are compounded; a drug store; an apothecary's shop.
  • English Word Pharo Definition A pharos; a lighthouse.
  • English Word Pharo Definition See Faro.
  • English Word Pharology Definition The art or science which treats of lighthouses and signal lights.
  • English Word Pharos Definition A lighthouse or beacon for the guidance of seamen.
  • English Word Pharyngal Definition Pharyngeal.
  • English Word Pharyngeal Definition Of or pertaining to the pharynx; in the region of the pharynx.
  • English Word Pharyngeal Definition A pharyngeal bone or cartilage; especially, one of the lower pharyngeals, which belong to the rudimentary fifth branchial arch in many fishes, or one of the upper pharyngeals, or pharyngobranchials, which are the dorsal elements in the complete branchial arches.
  • English Word pharynges Definition of Pharynx
  • English Word Pharyngitis Definition Inflammation of the pharynx.
  • English Word Pharyngobranchial Definition Of or pertaining to the pharynx and the branchiae; -- applied especially to the dorsal elements in the branchial arches of fishes. See Pharyngeal.
  • English Word Pharyngobranchial Definition A pharyngobranchial, or upper pharyngeal, bone or cartilage.
  • English Word Pharyngobranchii Definition Same as Leptocardia.
  • English Word Pharyngognathi Definition A division of fishes in which the lower pharyngeal bones are united. It includes the scaroid, labroid, and embioticoid fishes.
  • English Word Pharyngolaryngeal Definition Of or pertaining both to pharynx and the larynx.
  • English Word Pharyngopneusta Definition A group of invertebrates including the Tunicata and Enteropneusta.
  • English Word Pharyngotome Definition An instrument for incising or scarifying the tonsils, etc.
  • English Word Pharyngotomy Definition The operation of making an incision into the pharynx, to remove a tumor or anything that obstructs the passage.
  • English Word Pharyngotomy Definition Scarification or incision of the tonsils.
  • English Word Pharynx Definition The part of the alimentary canal between the cavity of the mouth and the esophagus. It has one or two external openings through the nose in the higher vertebrates, and lateral branchial openings in fishes and some amphibias.
  • English Word Phascolome Definition A marsupial of the genus Phascolomys; a wombat.
  • English Word Phase Definition That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.