Index of English words, starting with "ph"

(1) - Phlebotomy (n.) The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood, in the treatment of disease; venesection; bloodletting.

(1) - Phlegm (a.) Sluggishness of temperament; dullness; want of interest; indifference; coldness.
(2) - Phlegm (a.) A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous liquor.
(3) - Phlegm (a.) Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages.
(4) - Phlegm (a.) One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.

(1) - Phlegmatic (a.) Not easily excited to action or passion; cold; dull; sluggish; heavy; as, a phlegmatic person.
(2) - Phlegmatic (a.) Generating or causing phlegm.
(3) - Phlegmatic (a.) Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution.
(4) - Phlegmatic (a.) Watery.

(1) - Phlegmatically (adv.) In a phlegmatic manner.

(1) - Phlegmon (n.) Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.