All English words - page 2700

Of or relating to phlebotomy. also in extended use: designating or relating to bloodsucking insects.

The surgical opening or puncture of a vein in order to withdraw blood, to introduce a fluid, or (historically) when letting blood.

Withdraw blood from (a person) by surgically opening or puncturing a vein, historically for the purpose of bloodletting.

Withdraw blood from (a person) by surgically opening or puncturing a vein, historically for the purpose of bloodletting.

A person who is trained to take blood from a patient

Withdraw blood from (a person) by surgically opening or puncturing a vein, historically for the purpose of bloodletting.

Of, relating to, or resembling the mythical fiery river phlegethon; specifically blazing, burning.

A medicine for expelling phlegm; an expectorant.

Swelling of a limb; especially (more fully "†phlegmasia alba", "phlegmasia dolens") phlegmasia alba dolens; an instance of this. later also: phlegmasia cerulea dolens.

Phlegmatic.

Phlegmatically.

A person with a phlegmatic temperament.

Inflammatory; phlegmonous.

Devoid of or free from phlegm.

An inflammatory mass or localized area of inflammation; diffuse, spreading inflammation, often with suppuration, especially of soft tissue; cellulitis.

= phlegmonous .

Resembling (a) phlegmon; phlegmonous.

Of the nature of or involving (a) phlegmon.

Any of a class of reddish or brownish water-insoluble pigments which occur in various barks and other plant tissues, and are polymeric derivatives of tannins.

A believer in the phlogistic theory of combustion.

A substance supposed by 18th-century chemists to exist in all combustible bodies, and to be released in combustion.

Inflammation; an instance or area of inflammation.

A genus of shrubby and herbaceous plants (family lamiaceae (labiatae)) native to mediterranean europe and asia, and typically having grey-green, woolly leaves and verticillasters of yellow, purple, or white flowers; (also phlomis) a plant of this genus, especially. jerusalem sage, p. fruticosa.

A crystalline phenolic compound with a bicyclic molecular structure, the aglycone of phlorizin; 3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-1-(2,4,6-trihydroxyphenyl)-1-propanone, c₁₅ h₁₄ o₅.

A crystalline compound, c₂₁ h₂₄ o₁₀, which is a glucoside of phloretin, occurs widely in apple and other fruit trees, and acts biochemically as an uncoupler.