TAMPONAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tamponage mean? 

• TAMPONAGE (noun)
  The noun TAMPONAGE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TAMPONAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAMPONAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

tamponade; tamponage

Hypernyms ("tamponage" is a kind of...):

blockage; obstruction (the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tamponage"):

cardiac tamponade (mechanical compression of the heart resulting from large amounts of fluid collecting in the pericardial space and limiting the heart's normal range of motion)

Derivation:

tampon (plug with a tampon)