mammography

English

Etymology

mammo- +‎ -graphy

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi

Noun

mammography (plural mammographies)

1. (medicine) X-ray examination of the breasts for diagnosing and locating abnormalities, especially tumours.

   Synonym: mastography

   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 44:

     The introduction of mammography to detect breast cancer early in its course sharply increased its incidence.

Derived terms

• mammogram
• mammograph
• mammographic

Translations

X-ray examination of the breasts

• Bulgarian: рентгенография на гърдата (rentgenografija na gǎrdata)
• Catalan: mamografia f, mastografia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乳房攝影／乳房摄影 (rǔfáng shèyǐng), 乳房X光 (rǔfáng áikesi guāng)

• Czech: mamografie (cs) f
• Finnish: mammografia (fi)
• French: mammographie (fr) f
• Galician: mamografía (gl) f
• German: Mammografie (de) f
• Greek: μαστογραφία (el) f (mastografía)
• Hungarian: mammográfia (hu)
• Irish: mamagrafaíocht f, X-ghathú cíche m
• Italian: mammografia (it) f, mastografia (it) f
• Japanese: マンモグラフィー (manmogurafī), マンモ (manmo)
• Persian: پستان‌نگاری (pestân-negâri), ماموگرافی (mâmogrâfi)
• Polish: mammografia (pl) f
• Portuguese: mamografia (pt) f, mastografia f
• Russian: маммогра́фия (ru) f (mammográfija)
• Spanish: mamografía (es) f
• Swedish: mammografi (sv) c
• Ukrainian: мамогра́фія f (mamohráfija)

See also

• breast thermography

Further reading

• “mammography”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “mammography”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “mammography”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “mammography”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.