We have encountered two additional. groups of patientsin whom retrograde flow. of contrast medium in a vertebral artery. was not associated with proximal inÂ­. nominate or subelavian arterial stenosis. or occlusion.
1 Muffet's name could come from the children's nursery rhyme Little Miss Muffet, in which a young girl eating cottage cheese is scared away by a spider.  Her flavor text alludes the poem The Spider and the Fly.
Word Origin and History for tuffet. n. 1550s, little tuft, from Old French touffel (with exchange of diminutive suffix -et for French -el), diminutive of touffe (see tuft). Obsolete except in the nursery rhyme Little Miss Muffet (1843), where it has been felt to mean hassock, footstool..