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mammo

mammo is the clipping of mammogram.

Meaning of mammogram

Noun

mammogram (plural mammograms)

  1. An X-ray picture of the breasts (mammaries), used to screen for breast cancer.
    • If I had found out in 2010, when I had the mammogram, I would not have wanted preventive surgery because I hoped to have another child, and I wanted to breastfeed again.2023 February 6, Hilary Osborne, “I thought knowing I had the ‘cancer gene’ would cast a shadow over my life. Now I have it, I realise how wrong I was”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of mammo

pluralmammos

Questions about mammo

What is mammo the clipping of?
Mammo is the clipping of mammogram.

Words near mammo in the dictionary

  1. mammilothalamic
  2. mammisi
  3. mammisis
  4. mammitides
  5. mammitis
  6. mammo
  7. mammo-
  8. mammock
  9. mammocked
  10. mammocking
  11. mammocks

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