Tampon

Definitions: Tampon

Tampon

Noun

1. Plug of cotton or other absorbent material; inserted into wound or body cavity to absorb exuded fluids (especially blood).

Verb

1. Plug with a tampon.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tampon" was first used: 1848. (references)

Medicine

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: Tampon

Albanian (sponge, swab, swob, tampon, tent), Czech (swab, wipe), Danish (plug, tampon), Dutch (plug, tampon), French (buffer, bumper, duster, pad, plug, rubber stamp, swab, tampon, wad), German (plug, tampon), Hungarian (dossil, gauze plug, sponge, swab, tampon, wad), Romanian (buffer, cushion, pad, plug, plugging, tampon, wad, Wick), Serbo-Croatian (swab, swob, tampon), Turkish (buffer, bumper, cushion, fender, packing, shock absorber, tampon, wad).

If they find out you've seen this, your life will be worth less than a truckload of dead rats in a tampon factory. (Top Secret!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker)

Try this on for sizeBlood drenched frozen tampon popsicle! (South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut; writing credit: Trey Parker; Matt Stone)

You can have all your whips and chains and never have to deal with the tampon trips to the 7-Eleven. (Just Looking; writing credit: Tyler Bensinger)

Le Tampon du capiston (1950)

Tampon Tango (1975)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• 101 Super Uses for Tampon Applicators : A Helpful Guide for the Environmentally Conscious Consumer of Feminine Hygiene Products (reference)

• Le Tampon (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

The same instruction would apply to a new vaginal spray, douche, sanitary napkin, or tampon. (references)

Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS), causes blood pressure to drop rapidly and organs (e.g., kidney, liver, lungs) to fail. STSS is not the same as the "toxic shock syndrome" frequently associated with tampon usage. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

tampon (sponge, swab, swob, tent). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حشا (beef up, cake, cram, jam, load, pack, pad, poke, quilt, ram, stuff, tamp, wad), ‏سدادة قطنية. (various references)

Bulgarian 

слагам тампон на рана, тампон (ink pad, pad, pledget, sponge, tent, wad). (various references)

Czech

tamponovat, tampón. (various references)

Danish

tampon (canvas, compress, dabber, pad, pledget, plug, sponge, swab). (various references)

Dutch

tampon (canvas, compress, dabber, pad, pledget, plug, sponge, swab, wick). (various references)

Esperanto

tampono (plug). (various references)

French

tampon. (various references)

German

tampon (canvas, compress, dabber, pad, pledget, plug, sponge, swab). (various references)

Greek 

ταμπόν (canvas, dabber, ink pad, packing, paint pad). (various references)

Hebrew 

טמפון. (various references)

Hungarian

tampon (dossil, gauze plug, sponge, swab, wad). (various references)

Italian

tampone (bott, buffer, canvas, compress, dabber, pad, pledget, plug, sponge, stopper, swab, swob, tent, wad). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

タンパク質 (protein). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

タンポン . (various references)

Manx

stupaid. (various references)

Pig Latin

ampontay.(various references)

Portuguese

tamponar (plug), tampão periódico, tampão higiênico, tampão (cap, disc brake, disk, dome nut, Dot, plug, seal, stop, stopgap, stopper, tampion, turntable), aplicar tampão em. (various references)

Romanian

tampona (dab), tampon (buffer, cushion, pad, plug, plugging, wad, Wick). (various references)

Russian 

тампон (dossil, pledget). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tampon (swab, swob), čep (bung, cork, plug, spigot, spile, stopple, tampion, wad). (various references)

Spanish

tampón (buffer, buffer memory, buffer storage, buffer store, inkpad, pad, plug), tapón (bott, bottleneck, bridging of hole, bulling, bung, cap, capful, cellar plug, cellar plug(California), compress, cork, cover, head, pad, peg, pledget, plug, sponge, stopper, stopper head, stopper-end, stopple, swab, tampion, traffic bottleneck, wad, wadding). (various references)

Swedish

tampong (pledget, swab). (various references)

Thai

ผ้าอนามัยแบบสอ�", ก้อนสำลีสำหรับห้ามเลือ�". (various references)

Turkish

tampon koymak, tampon ile temizlemek, tampon (buffer, bumper, cushion, fender, packing, shock absorber, wad), tıpa (bung, Cork, plug, stopper, stopple, wad), tıkamak (block, block up, bung, bung up, choke, choke up, clog, congest, engorge, foul, foul up, glut, hold, jam, obliterate, obstruct, obturate, occlude, plug, plug up, seal off, Spike, spile, stop, stop up, stopple, stuff, wad), tıkaç (bung, Cork, filler, gag, packing, plug, spigot, spill, stopper, stopple, wad, wadding). (various references)

Ukranian 

тампонувати, тампон (swab, swob, wad). (various references)

tampon. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tampon": tamponed, tamponing, tampons. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tampon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ampoon, campon, tamon, tanon, tanpon, tapon, temon, tempen, Tiamzon, timop, Tiumpan, Tompion, Tompot, trampdom, trampen, trampo, tsampo, Tummon, tzampa. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: potman.

-1 letter: panto, toman.

-2 letters: atom, atop, mano, moan, moat, noma, nota, pant, tamp.

-3 letters: amp, ant, apt, man, map, mat, moa, mon, mop, mot, nam, nap, nom, not, oat, opt, pam, pan, pat, pom, pot, tam, tan, tao, tap, tom, ton, top.

-4 letters: am, an, at, ma, mo, na, no, om, on, op, pa, ta, to.

+1 letter: maintop, pantoum, phantom, postman, ptomain, tampion, tampons, timpano, tympano.

+2 letters: maintops, pantoums, phantoms, pivotman, pointman, protamin, ptomaine, ptomains, tampions, tamponed.

+3 letters: complaint, compliant, copayment, impaction, important, nonimpact, palmation, pantomime, paramount, patrimony, patrolman, patrolmen, protamine, protamins, protonema, ptomaines, pulmonate, sportsman, tamponing, taphonomy, treponema.

+4 letters: amputation, assumption, compacting, compaction, comparting, compensate, complacent, complaints, copayments, foretopman, homopteran, impactions, importance, importancy, imputation, miscaption, morphactin, nonoptimal, nonpayment, palmations, pantomimed, pantomimes, pantomimic, paramounts, patronymic, permeation, phonematic, pitchwoman, portamenti, portamento, postmating, poultryman, protamines, protohuman, protonemal, provitamin, pulmonates, taphonomic, temptation, trampoline, treponemal, treponemas, utopianism.

+5 letters: accompanist, adoptianism, adoptionism, aminopterin, amphictyony, amputations, amylopectin, appointment, assumptions, compactions, compactness, compartment, compensated, compensates, compensator, compilation, complainant, complaisant, compliantly, computation, contemplate, emancipator, homopterans, hymenoptera, impartation, impersonate, impetration, implication, importances, importantly, importation, importunate, imprecation, impregnator, imputations, incompliant, kleptomania, malposition, manipulator, metanephroi, metanephros, misanthrope, misanthropy, miscaptions, morphactins, mountaintop, nonemphatic, nonpayments, nontemporal, overpayment, pantomiming, pantomimist, paramountcy, paramountly, patrimonial, patrimonies, patronymics, pentamerous, permeations, permutation, phantomlike, pomegranate, portamentos, portmanteau, postmarking, predominant, predominate, prenominate, preromantic, prognathism, promotional, protohumans, protonemata, provitamins, sportsmanly, sportswoman, synaptosome, taphonomies, taphonomist, temptations, toponymical, trampoliner, trampolines, treponemata, trypanosome, unimportant, utopianisms.

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