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 atampon . - noun medicine A
stoppage in theflow ofblood in a vessel, caused either by the insertion of a tampon or by outsideconstriction .
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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Examples
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However, with costs ranging from $77 to $312 for a single-use tamponade, they are prohibitively expensive for widespread use in developing countries.
Maura O'Neill: Let's Test a Life-Saving Balloon Maura O'Neill 2011
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However, with costs ranging from $77 to $312 for a single-use tamponade, they are prohibitively expensive for widespread use in developing countries.
Maura O'Neill: Let's Test a Life-Saving Balloon Maura O'Neill 2011
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When a balloon tamponade is inserted into the uterus and filled with water or saline, it can stop bleeding within 10 to 15 minutes.
Maura O'Neill: Let's Test a Life-Saving Balloon Maura O'Neill 2011
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The tamponade stops hemorrhaging and controls uterine bleeding at as much as a 97 percent reduction in cost.
Maura O'Neill: Let's Test a Life-Saving Balloon Maura O'Neill 2011
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With the $100,000 award from USAID's Development Innovation Ventures DIV PATH and partners will develop, test and validate product requirement specifications and a low-cost manufacturing feasibility plan for a safe, effective tamponade device that meets international standards for medical devices.
Maura O'Neill: Let's Test a Life-Saving Balloon Maura O'Neill 2011
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There is a medical device called a balloon tamponade that can help save a mother from excessive blood loss.
Maura O'Neill: Let's Test a Life-Saving Balloon Maura O'Neill 2011
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Smart and clever researchers at the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health PATH designed a safe, simple balloon tamponade that, at less than $10 per device, would be affordable in the developing world.
Maura O'Neill: Let's Test a Life-Saving Balloon Maura O'Neill 2011
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With the $100,000 award from USAID's Development Innovation Ventures DIV PATH and partners will develop, test and validate product requirement specifications and a low-cost manufacturing feasibility plan for a safe, effective tamponade device that meets international standards for medical devices.
Maura O'Neill: Let's Test a Life-Saving Balloon Maura O'Neill 2011
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The tamponade stops hemorrhaging and controls uterine bleeding at as much as a 97 percent reduction in cost.
Maura O'Neill: Let's Test a Life-Saving Balloon Maura O'Neill 2011
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There is a medical device called a balloon tamponade that can help save a mother from excessive blood loss.
Maura O'Neill: Let's Test a Life-Saving Balloon Maura O'Neill 2011
fictionaldelusions commented on the word tamponade
Haha, sounds like lemonade but worse.
June 9, 2008
deinonychus commented on the word tamponade
When life gives you tampons...
September 2, 2012
elfflame commented on the word tamponade
n. Medicine (in full cardiac tamonade) compression of the heart by an accumulation of fluid in the pericardial sac.
April 26, 2020