mammogram
noun
mam·mo·gram ˈma-mə-ˌgram 
: a photograph of the breasts made by X-rays
also : the procedure for producing a mammogram
Example Sentences
She went to the hospital for her yearly mammogram.
Recent Examples on the Web The mammogram showed cancer which, during the one-year delay, had become terminal. 
Wylecia Wiggs Harris And Tom Cox, STAT, 23 June 2022 The mammogram did not pick up the cancer; the ultrasound did. Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2022 Dear Amy: My problem is that my daughter (who is 41 years old) does not want to get a mammogram. Amy Dickinson, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2022 Dear Amy: My problem is that my daughter (who is 41 years old) does not want to get a mammogram. Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022 My problem is that my daughter (who is 41 years old) does not want to get a mammogram. Amy Dickinson, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022 Dear Amy: My problem is that my daughter (who is 41 years old) does not want to get a mammogram. Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2022 Dear Amy: My problem is that my daughter (who is 41 years old) does not want to get a mammogram. Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2022 In a 2020 interview for the launch of her foundation, the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund, the actress urged women to trust their instincts after revealing that her initial mammogram in 1992 didn't catch the disease. Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2022 See More
Wylecia Wiggs Harris And Tom Cox, STAT, 23 June 2022 The mammogram did not pick up the cancer; the ultrasound did. Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2022 Dear Amy: My problem is that my daughter (who is 41 years old) does not want to get a mammogram. Amy Dickinson, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2022 Dear Amy: My problem is that my daughter (who is 41 years old) does not want to get a mammogram. Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022 My problem is that my daughter (who is 41 years old) does not want to get a mammogram. Amy Dickinson, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022 Dear Amy: My problem is that my daughter (who is 41 years old) does not want to get a mammogram. Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2022 Dear Amy: My problem is that my daughter (who is 41 years old) does not want to get a mammogram. Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2022 In a 2020 interview for the launch of her foundation, the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund, the actress urged women to trust their instincts after revealing that her initial mammogram in 1992 didn't catch the disease. Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Latin mamma "breast" + -o- + -gram — more at mamma
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
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