A dystopian scenario wherein medicine and the pharmaceuticals industry have a net detrimental effect on human health and medical progress does more harm than good.

pharmakosnoun

In Ancient Greek religion, the ritualistic sacrifice or exile of a human scapegoat.

pharmingnoun

The use of genetic engineering to alter an animal or plant in order to make it produce a pharmaceutical or similar product

pharmocogeneticistsnoun

Misspelling of pharmacogeneticists.

pharmorubicinnoun

Synonym of epirubicin.

Pharmouthiname

The eighth month of the later ancient Egyptian civil calendar and Coptic calendar, corresponding to the fourth and last month of the season of Peret. Since 25 BCE, when the calendar was reformed to include leap-days, Pharmouthi has been in roughly April.

pharologynoun

The study of lighthouses, or other forms of light-signalling.

pharosnoun

An ancient lighthouse or beacon to guide sailors.

Pharrellname

A male given name originating as a coinage, of African American usage.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter P contains 46,516 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 931 pages, and you are currently viewing page 292. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

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