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periependymal (medicine) and missis (iou)


periependymal (medicine)


periependymal


Surrounding the ependyma.


missis (iou)



missis noun. dial. & colloq. Also missus. L18.
[Repr. an informal pronunc. of MISTRESS noun: cf. MRS.]
(Among servants) one's mistress; (among N. American black people, in British India and South Africa) a white female employer, loosely any (esp. white) woman. Chiefly as a form of address. L18.
P. Abrahams I work for old missus when I was a child.
The wife of the person speaking, addressed, or referred to. Cf. MISTER noun2 3. E19.
Dennis Potter We haven't got to the stage of interviewing the candidate's missis yet. Daily Mirror If you fancy taking the missis for a day out, you take her virtually free.
Used as a form of address to an older woman, esp. one who is a stranger. M19.
G. B. Shaw He won't get no cab until half-past eleven, missus.