Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The employment of a tampon; tamponage.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun medicine The use of a tampon.
  • noun medicine A stoppage in the flow of blood in a vessel, caused either by the insertion of a tampon or by outside constriction.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun blockage or closure (as of a wound or body cavity) by (or as if by) a tampon (especially to stop bleeding)

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  • Haha, sounds like lemonade but worse.

    June 9, 2008

  • When life gives you tampons...

    September 2, 2012

  • n. Medicine (in full cardiac tamonade) compression of the heart by an accumulation of fluid in the pericardial sac.

    April 26, 2020