mammography
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Noun[edit]
mammography (plural mammographies)
- (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[edit]
Translations[edit]
X-ray examination of the breasts
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See also[edit]
- breast thermography
Further reading[edit]
- “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.