Interesting Factoid

I am reading a clinical case study from the New England Journal of Medicine right now.. and learning medical stuff by looking up words, clinical words that I don't know. (Doctors like to use big words to confuse patients). I looked up the word tamponade and it's definition is a pathological compression of joints; insertion of a tampon.. hmm.. interesting. So a tampon is a "pathological" compression of joints.. that really makes me think a little more about inserting that seemingly innocent thing during periods.. believe me, in the medical community, pathological never means something good.. I guess I am learning in med school!