phantasmographAn apparatus for printing magic-lantern slides, consisting of a long box, at one end of which the quarter-plate negative and the lantern plate in contact with it are placed.
phantonymA word that appears to mean one thing but actually means something else. Such terms are predisposed toward catachrestic use (including malapropisms) by speakers and writers.
phantoplexA superposed circuit operated by alternating current over a simplex, duplex or quadruplex circuit operated from direct current sources.
phantosmiaA form of parosmia involving olfactory hallucinations in which the perceived smell is triggered apparently without cause rather than by another smell.
PhaophiThe second month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the second month of the season of Akhet. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Phaophi has been in roughly October.
pharaohThe supreme ruler of Ancient Egypt; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the "king" in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty
pharaonicallyIn a pharaonic fashion (especially of female circumcision by infibulation).
PharaonismAn Egyptian anticolonial and nationalist ideology of the early 20th century, arguing for the existence of an Egyptian national continuity from ancient history to the modern era.
pharateIn the final stages of conversion from pupa to adult, e.g. waiting to emerge from a cocoon, or escaping from an aquatic pupal stage to terrestrial adulthood.
pharbitinA glycoside present in seeds of the morning glory (of former genus Pharbitis (syn. of Ipomoea).
phariseanFollowing the practice of Pharisees; pharisaic.
PhariseeA member of an ancient Jewish political party, a social movement, and a school of thought among Jews that flourished during the Second Temple Era (536 B.C.E.–70 C.E.). The movement was ultimately the basis for most contemporary forms of Judaism.
pharmacistA health professional who controls, formulates, preserves, and dispenses medications and provides medical advice and counseling on how medicines should be used in order to achieve maximum benefit, and minimal side effects in order to avoid drug interactions.
pharmacobehavioralRelating to pharmaceutical drugs and behavior (and their relationships).
pharmacobezoarA bezoar comprising undigested medications and their vehicles, such as capsule casings and tablets; such bezoars can form in people with disrupted digestion, polypharmacy, or both.
pharmacoendocrinologicalRelating to the (study of the) effects of pharmaceuticals on the endocrine system
pharmacoenhancerAny substance that enhances the efficacy of a drug
pharmacoenvironmentologya branch of pharmacology and pharmacovigilance that deals entry of chemicals or drugs into the environment after elimination from humans and animals as post-therapy. It deals specifically with those pharmacological agents that have impact on the environment via elimination through living organisms subsequent to pharmacotherapy.
pharmacogenomicsThe study of genes that code for enzymes that metabolize drugs, and the design of tailor-made drugs adapted to an individual's genetic make-up.
pharmacogenotypeA genotype that has an influence on the response to a drug