Phiz (?), n.; pl. Phizes (#). [Contr. fr. physiognomy.] The face or
visage. [Colloq.] Cowper.
||Phle*bi"tis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, &?;, a vein + -itis.] (Med.)
||Inflammation of a vein.
Phleb"o*gram (?), n. [Gr. &?;, &?; + -gram.] (Physiol.) A tracing (with
the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse.
{ Phleb"o*lite (?), Phleb"o*lith (?), } n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, a vein +
-lite, - lith.] (Med.) A small calcareous concretion formed in a vein;
a vein stone.
Phle*bol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, a vein + -logy.] A branch of
anatomy which treats of the veins.
Phle*bot"o*mist (?), n. [Cf. F. phlÈbotomiste.] (Med.) One who
practiced phlebotomy.
Phle*bot"o*mize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Phlebotomized (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Phlebotomizing (?).] [Cf. F. phlÈbotomiser.] To let blood from
by opening a vein; to bleed. [R.] Howell.
Phle*bot"o*my (?), n. [L. phlebotomia, Gr. &?;; &?;, &?;, a vein + &?;
to cut: cf. F. phlÈbotomie. Cf. Fleam.] (Med.) The act or practice of
opening a vein for letting blood, in the treatment of disease;
venesection; bloodletting.
Phlegm (?), n. [F. phlegme, flegme, L. phlegma, fr. Gr. &?; a flame,
inflammation, phlegm, a morbid, clammy humor in the body, fr. &?; to
burn. Cf. Phlox, Flagrant, Flame, Bleak, a., and Fluminate.] 1. One of
the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be
composed. See Humor. Arbuthnot.
2. (Physiol.) Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the
respiratory and digestive passages.
3. (Old Chem.) A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a
spirituous liquor. Crabb.
4. Sluggishness of temperament; dullness; want of interest;
indifference; coldness.
They judge with fury, but they write with phlegm.
Pope.
Phleg"ma*gogue (?), n. [Gr. &?; carrying of phlegm; &?; phlegm + &?; to
lead.] (Old Med.) A medicine supposed to expel phlegm.
||Phleg*ma"si*a (?), n. [NL., from Gr. &?;. See Phlegm.] (Med.) An
||inflammation; more particularly, an inflammation of the internal
||organs.
||Phlegmasia dolens (d"lnz) [NL.], milk leg.
Phleg*mat"ic (?), a. [L. phlegmaticus, Gr. &?;: cf. F. phlegmatique.]
1. Watery. [Obs.] "Aqueous and phlegmatic." Sir I. Newton.
2. Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic
constitution. Harvey.
3. Generating or causing phlegm. "Cold and phlegmatic habitations." Sir
T. Browne.
4. Not easily excited to action or passion; cold; dull; sluggish;
heavy; as, a phlegmatic person. Addison.
Phlegmatic temperament (Old Physiol.), lymphatic temperament. See under
Lymphatic.
Phleg*mat"ic*al (?), a. Phlegmatic. Ash.
Phleg*mat"ic*al*ly, adv. In a phlegmatic manner.