"mammography" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: mammographies [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi Etymology: mammo- + -graphy Etymology templates: {{confix|en|mammo|graphy}} mammo- + -graphy Head templates: {{en-noun}} mammography (plural mammographies)
  1. (medicine) X-ray examination of the breasts for diagnosing and locating abnormalities, especially tumours. Wikipedia link: mammography Categories (topical): Medicine Synonyms: mastography Derived forms: mammogram, mammograph, mammographic Related terms: breast thermography Translations (X-ray examination of the breasts): рентгенография на гърдата (rentgenografija na gǎrdata) (Bulgarian), mamografia [feminine] (Catalan), mastografia [feminine] (Catalan), 乳房攝影 (Chinese Mandarin), 乳房摄影 (rǔfáng shèyǐng) (Chinese Mandarin), 乳房X光 (rǔfáng áikesi guāng) (Chinese Mandarin), mamografie [feminine] (Czech), mammografia (Finnish), mammographie [feminine] (French), mamografía [feminine] (Galician), Mammografie [feminine] (German), μαστογραφία (mastografía) [feminine] (Greek), mammográfia (Hungarian), mamagrafaíocht [feminine] (Irish), X-ghathú cíche [masculine] (Irish), mammografia [feminine] (Italian), mastografia [feminine] (Italian), マンモグラフィー (manmogurafī) (Japanese), マンモ (manmo) (Japanese), پستاننگاری (pestân-negâri) (Persian), ماموگرافی (mâmogrâfi) (Persian), mammografia [feminine] (Polish), mamografia [feminine] (Portuguese), mastografia [feminine] (Portuguese), маммогра́фия (mammográfija) [feminine] (Russian), mamografía [feminine] (Spanish), mammografi [common-gender] (Swedish), мамогра́фія (mamohráfija) [feminine] (Ukrainian)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.