a plug of soft material inserted into the vagina to absorb menstrual blood 月经棉塞;塞子 ■(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
(tamponed, tamponing)
plug with a tampon 用棉塞塞住
语源
mid 19th cent.: from French, nasalized variant of tapon 'plug, stopper', ultimately of Germanic origin and related to tap