Wiktionary
n. A pad of cotton or other absorbent material worn by women to absorb the menstrual flow.
WordNet
n. a disposable absorbent pad (trade name Kotex); worn to absorb menstrual flow [syn: Kotex]
Wikipedia
A sanitary napkin, sanitary towel, sanitary pad, menstrual pad, or pad is an absorbent item worn by a woman while she is menstruating, while she is recovering from vaginal surgery, for lochia (post birth bleeding), after an abortion, or in any other situation where it is necessary to absorb a flow of blood from the vagina.
These pads are not to be confused with generally higher absorbency incontinence pads, which are worn by men or women who have urinary incontinence problems or experience stress incontinence. Menstrual pads may be used by some people for this purpose.
Usage examples of "sanitary napkin".
The victim was menstruating at the time, her sanitary napkin was removed and the third individual committed cunnilingus upon her.
The sanitary napkin manufacturer, the soup company, or the oil tycoon who thinks his idiot son should be a publisher.
The vegetation had all grown dizzy and slid down her back, snow swirled in perpetual spirals around her skull, she wore a glacier in her crotch like a sanitary napkin.
The rings lay on her palm in a mystic figure eight below the makeshift sanitary napkin bandage.
But she did remember one time when she got her period, sliding open the cupboard under the bathroom sink to get a sanitary napkin.
When Hoke picked his way among the sunbathers to take his first morning swim, he stepped on a discarded sanitary napkin with his bare left foot.
A pair of shredded nylon panties over there, with a mouldering sanitary napkin still glued to the crotch.
She found a sanitary napkin and fashioned two pads and bound them in place by winding the strips around my middle and knotting them.
In June of 1897 I went there prepared, resolved to do it, with a condom (a 'French purse') in my handbag, and a sanitary napkin - homemade, but all of them were in those days - as I knew that I might bleed and, if anything went wrong, I would have to convince my mother that I was simply three days early that month.
Someone had constructed a replica of a sanitary napkin from gauze and waste, dipped it in red paint, and stapled it to the back of his coat.
Other than that, there was only the sanitary napkin, which she knew was already soaked with her own blood.
The electrode between them was attached to some kind of sanitary napkin.