Surg. [f. prec. sb.: cf. F. tamponner (15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).] trans. To fill or stop (a wound, cavity, etc.) with a tampon; to plug.
1860. J. M. Carnochan, Operat. Surg., 279 (Cent. Dict.). The hemorrhage was stopped by tamponing the bony aperture [gunshot wound in head].
1898. Syd. Soc. Lex., Tamponing in Surgery the operation of plugging a wound or natural orifice with a tampon or tampons.
So Tamponade, Tamponage, Tamponment [F. tamponnement], the employment or application of a tampon.
1867. C. D. Meigs, Obstetrics (ed. 5), III. xiii. 447. To attempt to suppress one of these floodings by the Tamponade would be like damming a running stream whose backed waters must accumulate and at last overcome all obstructions.
1868. Med. & Surg. Rep., XVIII. 22 Feb., 180/2. An analysis is given of eleven operations assisted by the tamponment.
1877. Trans. Intl. Med. Cong., II. 768. Before the operation the only menas of retaining it [the organ] within the body was an inflated rubber ball or tamponage with oakum.
1890. Billings, Nat. Med. Dict., Tamponade, the application of tampons.
1900. Lancet, 27 Oct., 1191/1. He suggested free opening and curetting with patient and prolonged flushing and subsequent gauze tamponade.
1902. Cassell’s Encycl. Dict., Suppl., Tamponment.
