Culdoscope dead-end street (or a dead-end way), a blind alley. Tsin DA.Development of flexible culdoscopy J Am Assoc Gynecol Laparosc. 2000 Aug;7(3):440; author reply 441-2. Culdoscope Culdoscope is an instrument, a kind of endoscope, used to visualize female pelvic organs, introduced through the vagina into the cul-de-sac (which is also called the rectouterine pouch or the pouch of Douglas). The procedure of inserting the culdoscope into the rectouterine pouch is termed culdoscopy. The word culdoscope (and culdoscopy) is derived from the phrase cul-de-sac, which in French literally means "bottom of a sac", here referring to a blind pouch or cavity in
Disability publications in the U.S. print periodicals. This general-interest magazine originally was published both in braille and New York Point, an embossed writing system no longer in use. The magazine's founder, Mrs. William Ziegler, was the mother of a blind son and an heiress who solely funded the publication. Her endowment continues to provide for free distribution of the "Ziegler," as it is known. The "Braille Book Review" began in 1938 and described the newest books in Braille from the National Library Service for the Blind. Once sound technology was more prevalent, "Talking Book Topics" was founded in the 1930s to give the blind community