mammography

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 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

See also

• breast thermography

Further reading

• “mammography”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “mammography”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “mammography”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “mammography” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.