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MAMMOTHERMOGRAPHY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The use of thermography to detect breast tumors (which appear as hot spots)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("mammothermography" is a kind of...):
thermography (diagnostic technique using a thermograph to record the heat produced by different parts of the body; used to study blood flow and to detect tumors)