mammogram

noun

mam·​mo·​gram ˈma-mə-ˌgram 

: a photograph of the breasts made by X-rays

also : the procedure for producing a mammogram

Examples of mammogram in a Sentence

She went to the hospital for her yearly mammogram.

Recent Examples on the Web

Those with the lowest risk did not have to begin testing until age 50, while those at the highest risk were required to get two tests per year, regardless of age, including a mammogram and an MRI. —Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 19 Dec. 2025

Russo compared the test to a mammogram for the heart. —Kerry Breen, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2025

Women at elevated risk got annual mammograms; women at average risk were assigned to mammograms every other year, and those at lowest risk did not receive mammograms unless their risk score changed. —Alice Park, Time, 12 Dec. 2025

The host chimed in with her experience of being asked similarly personal questions before a mammogram. —Jill Inderstrodt, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2025

Word History

Etymology

Latin mamma "breast" + -o- + -gram — more at mamma entry 1

Note: The terms mammogram and mammography were introduced by the American physician and surgeon Nymphus Frederick Hicken (1900-98) in "Mammography: roentgenologic diagnosis of breast tumors by means of contrast media," Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, vol. 64 (1937), pp. 593-603.

First Known Use

1937, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for mammogram

• abraham
• anagram
• cablegram
• cofferdam
• dendrogram
• diagram
• diaphragm
• epigram
• hexagram
• histogram
• hologram
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Medical Definition

mammogram

noun

mam·​mo·​gram ˈmam-ə-ˌgram 

1

: a photograph of the breasts made by X-rays

2

: the procedure for producing a mammogram