MIS

This represents "Management Information System." This is generally a system based on a mainframe or minicomputer. Some companies have a department labeled "MIS" that may serve various puposes in the company, generally networking related.

MIS: Müllerian(duct)inhibiting substance. It is produced by the fetal testis, and its function is to vestigiate the primordial Müllerian ducts, thus preventing the development of a uterus and fallopian tubes in the male.

Dictionary of Sexology Project: Main Index

Mis (?), a. & adv. [See Amiss.]

Wrong; amiss.

[Obs.] "To correcten that [which] is mis."

Chaucer.

 

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