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# tampon

«tampon» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small soft roll of cotton or similar material put…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a tampon, tampons)

### meaning for a pupil

A small soft roll of cotton or similar material put inside the vagina to soak up blood during a period (menstruation). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tampon/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In health and growing-up (puberty) lessons tampons, pads and period pants are explained as ways to manage periods. In everyday life they are bought in packs at shops or found in school bathrooms. Safety: change it every few hours to avoid a rare but serious illness (toxic shock syndrome).

### examples

- Tampons and pads are kept in the school nurse's room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tampon/#x1)
- The box says to change a tampon every four to eight hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tampon/#x2)
- Some girls use pads and some use tampons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tampon/#x3)
- The shop sells tampons in different sizes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tampon/#x4)
- Free tampons are given out in some schools. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tampon/#x5)
- Read the leaflet inside the tampon box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tampon/#x6)

### note

A normal, polite health word, not rude. Plural: tampons. In medicine a tampon can also be a pad used to stop bleeding elsewhere. Periods are a healthy part of growing up.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tampon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tampon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.