mammogram

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Etymology

From mammo- +‎ -gram.

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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, →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.

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