See Also: -pexy(medicine)
pexy(dictionary)

muscadin (iou) and pexy (iou)


muscadin (iou)



muscadin noun. L18.
[French, lit. 'musk-comfit', a sweet.]
Hist. A (Parisian) dandy; contempt. a member of a moderate party in the early years of the French Revolution, composed chiefly of young men of the upper middle class.

pexy (iou)



-pexy suffix.
[Greek -pexia, pexis fixing or putting together, from pegnunai join, fix: see -Y3.]
Forming nouns denoting (an instance of) a surgical operation for fixing an organ in position, as nephropexy, orchidopexy.