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
En ventre sa mere En ventre sa mere The Law French phrase en ventre sa mere (literally "in womb its mother", corruption of the original French "en ventre de sa mère" "in the womb of its mother") refers to a fetus in utero. It is commonly used in Legal English. An unborn fetus, which is thus still "en ventre sa mere", may be accepted to be a beneficiary for some purposes, provided it is subsequently born alive. Such a fetus is treated as born if it thereby takes a direct benefit. The use of this concept in legal language can be traced to English