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tamponade

/tæmpəˈneɪd/

tamponade noun: the use of a tampon.

Noun

tamponade (plural tamponades)

  1. The use of a tampon.
  2. A stoppage in the flow of blood in a vessel, caused either by the insertion of a tampon or by outside constriction.
    • If a large fibrohemorrhagic complex had to be removed via a large retinectomy, a silicon oil tamponade is preferable.2014 October 1, J. Sebag, editor, Vitreous: in Health and Disease, Springer, page 555

Verb

tamponade (third-person singular simple present tamponades, present participle tamponading, simple past and past participle tamponaded)

  1. To plug or stop with a tampon.

tamponade meaning in Tamil

tamponade in Tamil

அமுக்கம், செருகுநெருக்கு

Forms of tamponade

Noun
pluraltamponades
Verb
third-person singular presenttamponades
present participletamponading
past participletamponaded
pasttamponaded

Origin of tamponade

From tampon + -ade.

Words formed from tamponade

Questions about tamponade

What does tamponade mean?
Tamponade means the use of a tampon.
What is tamponade in Tamil?
Tamponade in Tamil is அமுக்கம், செருகுநெருக்கு. See Tamponade meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tamponade?
Tamponade can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce tamponade?
Tamponade is pronounced /tæmpəˈneɪd/.
What is the plural of tamponade?
The plural of tamponade is tamponades.

Words near tamponade in the dictionary

  1. tampoe
  2. tampoes
  3. tampography
  4. tampon
  5. Tampon Tim
  6. tamponade
  7. tamponaded
  8. tamponades
  9. tamponading
  10. tamponage
  11. tamponages

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tamponade (page history and authors); tamponade (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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