Cul-de-sac: A viewer writes regarding the term "cul-de-sac": "I know we live on one. Is there a medical meaning for it?" The answer is of course: "Yes" (or you'd not be reading this here). An anatomic cul-de-sac is a blind pouch or cavity that is closed at one end.
Examples of culs-de-sac in the intestine:
Cul-de-sac, aside from being any "blind pouch or cavity that is closed at one end," is used specifically to refer to the rectouterine pouch (the pouch of Douglas), an extension of the peritoneal cavity between the rectum and back wall of the uterus. From that fact comes:
In French, "cul-de-sac" literally is "bottom of (a) sack." As early as the 13th century, a cul-de-sac was a dead-end street (or a dead-end way), a blind alley.
The third letter in "cul" is silent in French; in English it is spoken. So, in French "cul" is pronounced "ku" and in English "kul".
Richard Thompson's Cul de Sac, is a comic strip about the life of a pre-school girl named Alice Otterloop. It is a light-hearted comic strip centered around a four-year ...
Library > Literature & Language > Dictionary ( kÅl ' dÄ-săk ' , kÊŠl ' - ) n. , pl. , culs-de-sac ( kÅlz ' -, kÊŠlz ' - ), or cul-de-sacs ( kÅl ' - ). A dead-end ...
noun, plural culs-de-sac / ˈkʌlz dəˈsæk , -ˌsæk , ˈkʊlz- ; Fr. küd ə ˈsak / Show Spelled [ kuhlz -d uh - sak , -sak , k oo lz - ; Fr. k y d uh - s a k ...
Definition of CUL-DE-SAC. 1: a blind diverticulum or pouch . 2: a street or passage closed at one end . 3: blind alley. See cul–de–sac defined for English ...
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