mammo-, mamm-, mammi-
(Greek Latin: breast)
mamma, mama
Mother or breast, formed with reduplifcation for infants' babbling. It also refers to the mammary gland, the milk-secreting organ of mammals (normally only in females).
mammal
Etymologically, mammal denotes an "animal that suckles its young". The word is a derivative of mammalia, the term for that whole class of animals, coined by the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus from Latin mammalis "of the breast", which has been traced back to a prehistoric Indo-European element mamma.
Mammalia
mammalogy
mammaplasty
mammary
mammectomy
An operation to remove the whole breast.
mammiferous
mammiform
mammiplasia
mammitis
mammodynia
Pain in the breast.
mammogen
mammogenesis
mammogram
A record of a mammograph which is the technique or procedure for diagnosing and locating abnormalities of the breasts by means of X-rays; an examination by this technique.
Cross references of word families that are related, partially or totally, to: "breast, breasts, chest":
mammill-;
masto-;
mastoido-;
mazo-;
pectoro-;
pleuro-;
sterno-;
stetho-;
thorac-.
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