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Look up: Cul-de-sac

  1. Cul de Sac
    `Cul de Sac` are a rock music group formed in 1990 in Boston, Massachusetts and led by guitarist Glenn Jones. Their music is primarily instrumental. Jones and keyboardist Robin Amos have been the only constant members. They have been classified by some as post rock, but Jones has expressed some discomfort with the term. He states that Cul de Sac is the most `musically satisfying` group he's been involved with; a group that is the `closest to be...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cul_de_Sac

  2. Cul-de-sac
    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: Colonic diverticulum, a small bulging sac ...
    Found on http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.

  3. cul-de-sac
    a road with one end blocked off Category: Transport
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  4. Cul-de-sac
    Cul`-de-sac' noun ; plural Culs-de-sac (ku`- or kulz`-). [ F., lit., bottom of a bag.] 1. A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap. 2. (Mil.) a position in which an army finds itself with no way of exit but to the front. 3. (Anat.) Any bag-shaped or tubular cavity, vessel, or organ, ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/200

  5. cul-de-sac
    1. A blind pouch or tubular cavity closed at one end; e.g., diverticulum; caecum. ... Synonym: rectouterine pouch. ... Origin: Fr. Bottom of a sack ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  6. Cul-de-sac
    A `cul-de-sac`, `close` or (in Australia `court` where the end is rounded and dead-end street otherwise) is a dead-end street with only one inlet/outlet. Cul-de-sac literally means `bottom of a bag` in French and Catalan. Despite seeming to be a borrowed French phrase, the expression cul-de-sac originated in England during the period when French was spoken by the English aristocracy.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cul-de-sac

  7. cul-de-sac
    (kul″dә-sak´) a pouch or tubular cavity closed at one end; called also caecum. conjunctival cul-de-sac the fold formed by the junction of the palpebral and the ocular conjunctiva; called also fornix of conjunctiva. Douglas cul-de-sac a sac or re...
    Found on http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns

  8. Cul-de-sac
    • (n.) a position in which an army finds itself with no way of exit but to the front. • (n.) A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap. • (n.) Any bag-shaped or tubular cavity, vessel, or organ, open only at one end.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  9. Cul-de-sac
    A small pouch like structure that can be found between the rectum and uterus in females and between the rectum and bladder in males. Synonym(s): Pouch Of Douglas Rectouterine Pouch
    Found on http://www.pregnology.com/AZ/C/11

  10. Culdesac
    Culdesac is a city in Nez Perce County Idaho, USA
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  11. Culs-de-sac
    • (pl. ) of Cul-de-sac
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning


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