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TAMPONADE

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 I. (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)

Synonyms:

tamponade; tamponage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("tamponade" 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 "tamponade"):

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb tamponade

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