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Phenotype Phenomenal Phenomemon


~ PHENOMENAL  id+ EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS or THINGS
~ PHENOMENON  PERCEPTIBLE EVENT
~ PHENOTYPE   PHYSICAL or MANIFEST CHARACTERISTIC or
              SYNDROME meaning A SET OF
  STIGMATA or SIGNS or TRAITS or CHARATERISITCS
  biol> med> in genetics PHENOTYPE is any
             OBSERVABLE DISCRETE TRAIT or
  maniFESTation of an ORGANISM   sug> ORGANIZATION
  gr PHEN   = TO SHOW            sug> PHYSICAL
     PHANEIN  same               sug> PHYSICIAN
  consider see> FENESTRATE       sug> DEFENESTRATE
  lit+  "To call forth a CONCEPT, a WORD is needed
         To portray a PHENOMENON, a CONCEPT is needed
         All three mirror one and the same Reality"
  from Antoine Laurent LAVOISIER [#] in
  Traite Elementaire de Chemie 1789      sug> REAL
  note ANCIENT AND OTHER WRITERS USED
       EPYPAHY TO CONVEY SECULAR IDEAS
  CONCERNED WITH "SUDDEN ENLIGHTENMENT" and
  THEOPHANY to denote a "MANIFESTATION OF A GOD"
  note "MANIFESTATION OF A GODDESS" became
        EVITE and because EVE was NAKED
        it may have become
        EVITATE for AVOID  in sp  EVITA EVITAR
  note  PHASE  PHANTASM  PHANTOM  PHANTASGAMORIA
        FANTASY FANTASTIC  FANCY  FANCIFUL
  CELLOPHANE SYCOPHANT and
  THEOPHANY which relates to TIFFANY
  ply> | EVITA PERON [#] inEVITAbly reminds of EVA |
  see> EPYPHANY

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