mammography
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English
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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.