mammogram

English

Alternative forms

• mammogramme (very rare)

Etymology

From mammo- +‎ -gram.

Pronunciation

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Noun

mammogram (plural mammograms)

1. (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^[1], →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