mammo-, mamm-, mammi-

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).

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.

An operation to remove the whole breast.

Pain in the breast: There are different reasons for a case of mammodynia including a misfitting bra, a cyst, breast cancer, and hormonal changes.

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.