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Touch Em All: Hitting a home run (touching all the bases).

Phallic Stage: The period, from about 21/2 to 6 years, during which sexual interest, curiosity, and pleasurable experience in boys center on the penis, and in girls, to a lesser extent, the clitoris.

Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) Plan: A type of managed care specialty service organization that seeks to contain the costs, while promoting safer and more efficient use, of prescription drugs or pharmaceuticals. Also known as a . . . View Full Definition

Phased Retirement: A work schedule arrangement that allows employees to gradually reduce their full-time hours over a period of time.

Phallic: A phallic symbol or phallus is a sexualized representation of male potency, power, or domination--particularly through some object vaguely reminiscent of the penis. Common phallic symbols in . . . View Full Definition

Petrochemicals: Organic and inorganic compounds and mixtures that are derived from petroleum. These include: organic chemicals, cyclic inter¬mediates, plastics, resins, synthetic fibers, elastomers, organic . . . View Full Definition

Pest Resistance Management (PRM) Plans: To protect the continued use of biopesticides, the Environmental Protection Agency is requiring companies developing transgenic crops (see genetic engineering) to submit and implement pest r . . . View Full Definition

Petit Battement: is a battement action where the bending action is at the knee, while the upper leg and thigh remain still. The working foot quickly alternates from the cou-de-pied position in the front to t . . . View Full Definition

Phloem: Tissue in the vascular system of plants that moves dissolved sugars and other products of photosynthesis from the leaves to other regions of the plant. Phloem tissue consists of cells called . . . View Full Definition

Phoneme: The smallest sound or part of a spoken word that serves as a building block in a larger syllable or word, and which cannot be broken down further into smaller constitutive sounds. Phonetic t . . . View Full Definition