mammogram

[ mam-uh-gram ]

noun

1. an x-ray photograph obtained by mammography.

mammogram

/ măm′ə-grăm′ /

1. An x-ray image of the human breast, used to detect tumors or other abnormalities.

mammogram

1. An x-ray of the breast, produced by mammography , that is used in screening for breast cancer .

Word History and Origins

Origin of mammogram¹

First recorded in 1935–40; mamm(a) ² + -o- + -gram ¹

Example Sentences

Screening mammogram visits fell after March 2020 compared with previous years.

From Science News

Wilkes, a 42-year-old mammogram technician, had died alone of covid-19 in her home, her four-year-old child near her body.

From MIT Technology Review

I’ve had patients come to me first before getting their mammograms.

From Fortune

This is tough for me to share, but if just ONE woman decides to get her mammogram after watching this, what I’m going through will be worth it.

From Essence.com

From this NLP work I then moved into predicting patient risk from mammograms, using image recognition to predict if you would get cancer or not—how your disease is likely to progress.

From MIT Technology Review

Thankfully, her cancer was caught rather early because of an assignment she had in early October in which she had mammogram done.

From The Daily Beast

“We get sidetracked by efforts to focus on getting every woman a mammogram,” she recently told The Daily Beast.

From The Daily Beast

A woman whose life was saved by a mammogram would argue that such screenings should be the top priority, she says.

From The Daily Beast

Jack Black giving himself a mammogram (yes, mammogram) on camera.

From The Daily Beast

As the mammogram issue reveals, representation is no longer a game of percentages.

From The Daily Beast