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Phlox (Star Trek)
Phlox (Phloxx-tunnai-oortann), Denobulan chief medical officer of Enterprise NX-01 in Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-2005), played by John Billingsley, Interspecies Medical Exchange physician with three wives, famous for Dear Doctor and Doctor's Orders.
Phlya
Phlya (Φλύα, Phlyeis Φλυεῖς) was an inland Attic deme of tribe Kekropis, then Ptolemais from 224 BC, near modern Halandri; home deme of Euripides, with Rural Dionysia and many altars recorded by Pausanias.
Phnom Penh (ភ្នំពេញ)
Phnom Penh (ភ្នំពេញ), capital and largest city of Cambodia, seat of government since 1866 under King Norodom I. About 2.3 million residents; fell to the Khmer Rouge in 1975; rapid growth, flooding, and the new Techo International Airport define it.
Phnom Penh International Airport
Phnom Penh International Airport, long known as Pochentong Airport, was Cambodia's principal international gateway. Opened in 1959, it closed in September 2025, replaced by Techo International Airport.
Phnom Tamao Zoo
Phnom Tamao Zoo (ភ្នំតាម៉ៅ), or PTWRC, Cambodia's largest zoo and wildlife rescue center in Takeo province, established 1995; holds 1,200+ rescued animals of 100+ species with Wildlife Alliance, protected by 2022 royal decree.
Pho
Pho, also known as phở bò, is a Vietnamese noodle soup of flat rice noodles, beef or chicken, and long-simmered broth, the country's most internationally recognized dish.
Phổ Yên
Phổ Yên (Phổ Yên) is a city in Thái Nguyên province, northern Vietnam, its southern gateway to Hanoi; a town from 2015, a city from April 2022, population over 237,000, an industrial hub anchored by Samsung's Yên Bình complex. Distinct from Phú Yên province, merged into Đắk Lắk in 2025.
Phobia
Phobia: an intense, persistent fear of a specific object or situation, out of proportion to real danger. Covers specific phobia, agoraphobia, and social anxiety disorder; lifetime prevalence about 7.2%; treated mainly with exposure therapy, including virtual reality exposure.
Phobia (2016 film)
Phobia (फोबिया) is a 2016 Hindi psychological thriller directed by Pavan Kirpalani, starring Radhika Apte as Mehak, an artist with agoraphobia after a taxi assault; released 27 May 2016, ₹2.52 crore India nett.
Phobos (mythology)
Phobos (Φόβος), Greek daimon of panic-fear and rout, brother of Deimos, son of Ares (and Aphrodite in Hesiod); Ares's charioteer, cult recipient, namesake of Mars's moon.
Phobos (Φόβος) (moon)
Phobos is the larger and innermost of Mars's two moons, an irregular, dark body discovered in 1877 that orbits closer to its planet than any other moon.
Phobos 2
Phobos 2 was a Soviet unmanned spacecraft launched in 1988 to explore Mars and its moon Phobos; contact was lost in March 1989 before its landers deployed.
Phobos monolith
The Phobos monolith is a large boulder near Stickney crater on the Martian moon Phobos, imaged by Mars Global Surveyor in 1998 and likely ejecta from the Stickney impact.
Phoca
Phoca is a genus of earless seals (Phocidae) erected by Linnaeus in 1758, type species the harbor seal Phoca vitulina; it now holds P. vitulina and P. largha, with Pusa and Halichoerus so close genetically that merging all three into Phoca has been proposed.
Phocaea
Phocaea (Phokaia; modern Foça, Turkey), northernmost of the twelve Ionian cities with twin harbors; an Aeolian then Ionian seafaring and trading power that founded Massalia, Emporion, Alalia, and Elea, minted early electrum coinage, and fell to Persia in 546 BC.
Phocaea family
Phocaea family: high-inclination S-type asteroid family in the inner main belt around (25) Phocaea, bounded by the 7J:-2A, 3J:-1A and ν6 resonances; an ancient collisional family up to 2.2 Gyr old, with the dark Tamara family and a proposed H-chondrite, near-Earth asteroid source.
Phocas (Φωκᾶς)
Phocas (Φωκᾶς, Phokas), East Roman emperor 602–610, a humble Cappadocian centurion who usurped the throne from Maurice in the 602 Danube army mutiny, fought Khosrow II's Persia, and was executed by Heraclius in October 610.
Phocian Wall
Phocian Wall: ancient barrier across the Thermopylae pass, built by the Phocians against Thessalian invasion, with hot springs diverted as a watercourse; ruined by 480 BC, rebuilt by Leonidas' Greeks, remains still visible.
Phocis Flexus
Phocis Flexus is a scalloped, curved ridge (a flexus) on Jupiter's moon Europa, about 242 km across, named in 1985 after the Greek region of Phocis.
Phocoena
Phocoena (common porpoises, harbor porpoises), genus of porpoises in family Phocoenidae named by Cuvier in 1816; four species: harbor porpoise, vaquita, Burmeister's, and spectacled porpoise; spatulate teeth distinguish them from dolphins.
Phocoenoides
Phocoenoides (Dall's porpoises) is a monotypic porpoise genus, Andrews 1911, type species P. truei, containing only Dall's porpoise P. dalli of the North Pacific; distinct from Phocoena and Neophocaena.
Phocomelia
Phocomelia, a rare congenital limb deficiency with absent proximal long bones and preserved hands or feet; historically linked to thalidomide, also seen in Roberts, TAR, and Holt-Oram syndromes; prevalence about 0.62 per 100,000 births.
Phocomelia, Schinzel type
Phocomelia, Schinzel type, or Al-Awadi-Raas-Rothschild syndrome (OMIM 276820), is a rare autosomal recessive WNT7A-related limb reduction disorder with pelvic aplasia, intercalary limb deficiencies, and occipital skull defects; intelligence is normal.
Phocylides (lunar crater)
Phocylides is a 115-km IAU-approved lunar impact crater at 52.8°S, 57.3°W, named for Dutch astronomer Johannes Phocylides Holwarda (1618–1651), approved 1935, overlapping Nasmyth to the north.
Phodopus
Phodopus, small desert hamsters (Miller, 1910), a central Asian hamster genus with three species: roborovskii, sungorus, campbelli; short-tailed, hairy-soled, high-metabolism rodents studied for torpor and seasonal physiology.
Phoebastria
Phoebastria, the North Pacific albatrosses (genus Reichenbach, 1853): four species, short-tailed, Laysan, black-footed, and waved albatross, restored by 1996 cytochrome-b phylogeny; conservation statuses range from Near Threatened to Critically Endangered.
Phoebastria albatrus
Phoebastria albatross, the Short-tailed Albatross, is a North Pacific seabird driven nearly to extinction by feather hunting around 1900 and since recovered to about 5,000 birds.
Phoebe
Phoebe (Saturn IX) is Saturn's largest irregular moon, a dark retrograde body about 106.5 km in radius, likely a captured Kuiper Belt object or Centaur, studied by Cassini's June 2004 flyby; source of the Phoebe ring and Iapetus's dark material.
Phoebe (biblical figure)
Phoebe (Phebe), a first-century Christian at Cenchreae near Corinth, commended in Romans 16:1-2 as sister, diakonos (deacon or servant), and prostatis (patron); probable carrier of Paul's letter to the Romans, first recorded deacon per Dunn, feast day 3 September.
Phoebe (Greek myth)
Phoebe (Φοιβη, Phoibe), Greek Titaness, daughter of Uranus and Gaia, wife of Coeus, mother of Leto and Asteria; third holder of the Delphic oracle in Aeschylus, who gave it to her grandson Apollo as a birthday gift.