Pharmacosiderite
(Phar`ma*co*sid"er*ite) n. [Gr. drug, poison + E. siderite.] (Min.) A hydrous arsenate
of iron occurring in green or yellowish green cubic crystals; cube ore.
Pharmacy
(Phar"ma*cy) n. [OE. fermacie, OF. farmacie, pharmacie, F. pharmacie, Gr. fr. to administer
or use medicines, fr. medicine.]
1. 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.
2. A place where medicines are compounded; a drug store; an apothecary's shop.
Pharo
(Pha"ro) n.
1. A pharos; a lighthouse. [Obs.]
2. See Faro.
Pharology
(Pha*rol"o*gy) n. [Gr. a lighthouse + -logy.] The art or science which treats of lighthouses
and signal lights.
Pharos
(Pha"ros) n. [L., fr. Gr. fr. an island in the Bay of Alexandria, where king Ptolemy Philadelphus
built a famous lighthouse.] A lighthouse or beacon for the guidance of seamen.
He . . . built a pharos, or lighthouse.
Arbuthnot. Pharyngal
(Pha*ryn"gal) a. Pharyngeal. H. Sweet.
Pharyngeal
(Phar`yn*ge"al) a. [See Pharynx.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pharynx; in the region of
the pharynx.
Pharyngeal
(Phar`yn*ge"al), n. (Anat.) 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.
Pharyngitis
(||Phar`yn*gi"tis) n. [NL. See Pharynx, and -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the pharynx.
Pharyngobranchial
(Pha*ryn`go*bran"chi*al) a. [Pharynx + branchial.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the
pharynx and the branchiæ; — applied especially to the dorsal elements in the branchial arches of fishes.
See Pharyngeal. — n. A pharyngobranchial, or upper pharyngeal, bone or cartilage.
Pharyngobranchii
(||Pha*ryn`go*bran"chi*i) n. pl. [NL. See Pharynx, and Branchia.] (Zoöl.) Same as
Leptocardia.
Pharyngognathi
(||Phar`yn*gog"na*thi) n. pl. [NL. See Pharynx, and Gnathic.] (Zoöl.) A division of
fishes in which the lower pharyngeal bones are united. It includes the scaroid, labroid, and embioticoid
fishes.
Pharyngolaryngeal
(Pha*ryn`go*lar`yn*ge"al) a. [Pharynx + laryngeal.] Of or pertaining both to pharynx
and the larynx.
Pharyngopneusta
(||Pha*ryn`gop*neus"ta) n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. the pharynx + to breathe.] (Zoöl.) A group
of invertebrates including the Tunicata and Enteropneusta. — Pha*ryn`gop*neus"tal a.
Pharyngotome
(Pha*ryn"go*tome) n. (Surg.) An instrument for incising or scarifying the tonsils, etc.
