applicatorful

plural applicatorfuls

1. The amount that will fill an applicator

   "When using with a condom, put an applicatorful of spermicide inside the vagina before sexual intercourse"

   1992, The New Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Women, Boston Women's Health Book Collective

   3 more examples

   "Another phone call informed her that there was indeed a dance collection of such files, too; an hour later (pausing only long enough to use an applicatorful of the newly delivered Monistat), and the hell with whether you were supposed to star horizontal."

   2002, Ellen Pall, Corpse de Ballet: A Nine Muses Mystery: Terpsichore

   "For candidal vaginitis, various regimens of topical antifungal agents are the mainstay of treatment (clotrimazole 1% cream, one applicatorful inserted high into the vaginal vault for 7 nights, clotrimazole, two 100-mg vaginal tablets for 3 nights or one 500-mg vaginal tablet for single-dose treatment)."

   2002, Kevin J. Knoop, Atlas of Emergency Medicine

   "If coitus does not take place within 60 minutes of insertion of the spermicidal preparation, insert another applicatorful before sexual intercourse if contraception is desired."

   2003, Helen Varney, Varney's midwifery