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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An image of the breast produced by mammography.
  • noun The procedure performed to produce such an image.

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  • noun An X-ray picture of the breasts (mammaries), used to screen for breast cancer.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun X-ray film of the soft tissue of the breast

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