mammogram
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- mammogramme (very rare)
Etymology edit
Noun edit
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[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 edit
X-ray picture of the breasts
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See also edit
- mammography
- breast thermography