| phlogistic | 1. <chemistry> Of or pertaining to phlogiston, or to belief in its existence. 2. <medicine> Inflammatory; belonging to inflammations and fevers. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| phlogistical | <chemistry> Phlogistic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| phlogisticate | <chemistry> To combine phlogiston with; usually in the form and sense of the or the; as, highly phlogisticated substances. Origin: Phlogisticated; Phlogisticating. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| phlogistication | <chemistry> The act or process of combining with phlogiston. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| phlogiston | <chemistry> The hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability, regarded by Stahl as a chemical element. This was supposed to be united with combustible (phlogisticated) bodies and to be separated from incombustible (dephlogisticated) bodies, the phenomena of flame and burning being the escape of phlogiston. Soot and sulphur were regarded as nearly pure phlogiston. The essential principle of this theory was, that combustion was a decomposition rather than the union and combination which it has since been shown to be. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Burnt, set on fire, fr. To set on fire, to burn, fr, a flame, blaze. See Phlox. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| phlogiston theory | <chemistry> The hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability, regarded by Stahl as a chemical element. This was supposed to be united with combustible (phlogisticated) bodies and to be separated from incombustible (dephlogisticated) bodies, the phenomena of flame and burning being the escape of phlogiston. Soot and sulphur were regarded as nearly pure phlogiston. The essential principle of this theory was, that combustion was a decomposition rather than the union and combination which it has since been shown to be. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Burnt, set on fire, fr. To set on fire, to burn, fr, a flame, blaze. See Phlox. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| phlogocyte | An obsolete term for one of a number of cells present in the tissues during the course of an inflammation. Origin: G. Phlogosis, inflammation, + kytos, a hollow (cell) (05 Mar 2000) |
| phlogocytosis | An obsolete term for a blood state in which there are many phlogocytes in the peripheral circulation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| phlogogenic | An obsolete term for exciting inflammation. Origin: G. Phlox (phlog-), flame, + -gen, producing (05 Mar 2000) |
| phlogogenous | <medicine> Causing inflammation. Origin: Gr, fire + -genous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| phlogopite | <chemical> A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronze-red or copperlike colour and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia, with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica. Origin: Gr. Firelike. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| phlogosin | A substance, isolated from cultures of pus-producing cocci, injections of sterilised solutions of which will excite suppuration. Origin: G. Phlogosis, inflammation (05 Mar 2000) |
| phlogosis | <medicine> Inflammation of external parts of the body; erysipelatous inflammation. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Burning heat. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| phlogotherapy | Synonym: non-specific therapy. Origin: G. Phlogosis, inflammation, + therapy (05 Mar 2000) |
| phlogotic | <medicine> Of or pertaining to phlogisis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |