PREGNANCY TEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pregnancy test mean? 

• PREGNANCY TEST (noun)
  The noun PREGNANCY TEST has 1 sense:

1. a physiological test to determine whether a woman is pregnant

  Familiarity information: PREGNANCY TEST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREGNANCY TEST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A physiological test to determine whether a woman is pregnant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("pregnancy test" is a kind of...):

bio-assay; bioassay (appraisal of the biological activity of a substance by testing its effect on an organism and comparing the result with some agreed standard)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pregnancy test"):

Friedman test; rabbit test (pregnancy test that involves injecting some of the woman's urine into an unmated female rabbit and later examining the ovaries of the rabbit; presence of corpora lutea indicates that the woman is pregnant)

 Context examples 

Home pregnancy tests are similar - they test for pregnancy hormones in your urine.

(Hormones, NIH)

After further analysis, the TGA discovered the pregnancy tests were incapable of detecting the presence of the (hCG) hormone, an early indicator of pregnancy.

(Numerous home pregnancy tests recalled after false negative results reported, Wikinews)

A strip of chromatography paper similar to that used in rapid pregnancy tests is the basis of a bio-sensor for detecting malaria that has been developed by Brazilian researchers.

(Biosensor promises early malaria diagnosis, SciDev.Net)

A number of at-home pregnancy tests were recalled in Australia last week after customers and clinics concluded false negative results were received.

(Numerous home pregnancy tests recalled after false negative results reported, Wikinews)

The One Step hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) urine pregnancy test came to the attention of the TGA after a family planning clinic reported three cases of false negative readings of the test.

(Numerous home pregnancy tests recalled after false negative results reported, Wikinews)