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- a plug of soft material inserted into the vagina to absorb menstrual blood月经棉塞; 塞子。
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- Medicine a plug of material used to stop a wound or block an opening in the body and absorb blood or secretions【医】止血塞。
verb
tamponed, tamponing
- plug with a tampon用棉塞塞住。
词源
mid 19th cent.: from French， nasalized variant of tapon 'plug， stopper'， ultimately of Germanic origin and related to TAP1.