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▪ I. tampon, n.|ˈtæmpən, -ɒn|
Also tompon.
[ad. F. tampon: etymologically a doublet of tampion, introduced anew from mod. French.]
1. A plug or tent inserted tightly into a wound, orifice, etc., to arrest hæmorrhage, or used as a pessary (Surg.). Esp. one inserted into the vagina; now spec. one made commercially and bought to provide sanitary protection during menstruation. Also attrib.
1848C. D. Meigs Females & their Diseases xxxiii. 432 Having confidence in the power of the tampon to suppress such a flooding [sc. menorrhagia], I would let her go very far towards a dangerous state rather than subject her to the mortification of the surgical intervention. 1860Mayne Expos. Lex., Tampon..Obstet., a less inelegant term for the plug, whether made up of portions of rag, sponge, or a silk handkerchief..in cases of hemorrhage. 1872T. G. Thomas Dis. Women (ed. 3) 61 [To] keep the displaced and congested uterus out of the cavity of the pelvis by a tampon of medicated cotton. 1888Scott. Leader 14 June 4/1 The new species of cannula employed..is provided with a tampon, and is constructed [so] as to prevent hæmorrhage. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 438 Tampons are pear-shaped with the thread attached to the lower end. 1921B. M. Anspach Gynecology xxxix. 709 Tampons are made by placing over a strip of absorbent cotton a smaller strip of lamb's wool, and binding them together. 1932,1935[see Tampax]. 1957T. N. A. Jeffcoate Princ. Gynaecol. xliii. 635 Proprietary tampons of various kinds are available but this method of applying antiseptics [to the vagina and cervix] is now rarely used. 1964Which? Mar. 84/1 Medical opinion has always been divided over the use of tampons instead of external towels. 1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 50 The success of the tampon is partly due to the fact that it is hidden. 1979Guardian 27 Mar. 9/4 The tampon market is worth about {pstlg}14 millions a year. Tampax has 62 per cent.
2. The dabber or inking ball used in lithography and copperplate printing. (So also in French.)
1877Knight Dict. Mech., Tompon, the inking-pad of the lithographic printer. 1882G. Reid in Encycl. Brit. XIV. 701/1 (Lithography) An engraved stone is printed by using a small wooden tapper or tampon, either round at the sides, flat below, with handle at top, or square, with the corners rounded off.
3. Special Comb. tampon-screw, an instrument used for inserting or withdrawing a tampon from a wound, etc.
1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., Tampon-screw.
▪ II. ˈtampon, v. Surg.
[f. prec. n.: cf. F. tamponner (15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
trans. To fill or stop (a wound, cavity, etc.) with a tampon; to plug.
1860J. M. Carnochan Operat. Surg. 279 (Cent. Dict.) The hemorrhage was stopped by tamponing the bony aperture [gunshot wound in head]. 1898Syd. Soc. Lex., Tamponing, in Surgery the operation of plugging a wound or natural orifice with a tampon or tampons.
So ˈtamponage, ˈtamponment [F. tamponnement], the employment or application of a tampon.
1902Cassell's Encycl. Dict., Suppl., Tamponment.
▪ III. tampon, -pond, -poon
obs. var. tampion. |