mammogram

English

Alternative forms

mammogramme (very rare)

Etymology

mammo- +‎ -gram

Noun

mammogram (plural mammograms)

(medicine) An X-ray picture of the breasts (mammaries), used to screen for breast cancer.
- 2023 February 6, Hilary Osborne, “I thought knowing I had the ‘cancer gene’ would cast a shadow over my life. Now I have it, I realise how wrong I was”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:
  If I had found out in 2010, when I had the mammogram, I would not have wanted preventive surgery because I hoped to have another child, and I wanted to breastfeed again.

Translations

X-ray picture of the breasts

Chinese:
Mandarin: 乳房攝影／乳房摄影 (rǔfáng shèyǐng)
Finnish: mammografiakuva
French: mammogramme m
German: Mammogramm n
Russian: маммогра́мма (ru) f (mammográmma)

See also

mammography
breast thermography

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