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HCG

Definition: HCG

HCG

Noun

1. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta; detection in the urine and serum is the basis for one kind of pregnancy test.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"HCG" is a common misspelling or typo for: chug, hag, hog, hug.

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: HCG

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

HCG

DutchBêta-HCGMedicine

HCG

EnglishHuman chorionic gonadotropinMedicine

HCG

FrenchHormone chorionique gravidiqueMedicine

HCG

ItalianGonadotropina corionica umanaMedicine

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: HCG

Synonyms: human chorionic gonadotrophin (n), human chorionic gonadotropin (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: HCG

Specialty definitions using "HCG": Glycoprotein Hormones, alpha Subunit. (references)

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Commercial Usage: HCG

DomainTitle

Books

  • Radioimmunologische Bestimmungen von HCG, HCS, STH und TSH : Methodik und Ergebnisse aus mtterlichen und kindlichen Krperflssigkeiten whrend Schwangerschaft, Geburt und Wochenbett (reference)

  • The Triggering of Ovulation in Stimulated Cycles: hCG or LH? (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: HCG

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

While these measurements are not a definitive test for Down syndrome, a lower MSAFP value, a lower uE3 level, and an elevated hCG level, on average, suggests an increased likelihood of a Down syndrome fetus, and additional diagnostic testing may be desired. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: HCG

"HCG" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 93.33% of the time. "HCG" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (common)93.33%1493,893
Noun (singular)6.67%1339,140
                    Total100.00%15N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: HCG

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "HCG": post-hcg.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HCG

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

hcg

597

hcg level

541

beta hcg

98

hcg ivf

89

hcg level pregnancy

86

hcg level in pregnancy

86

hcg level in early pregnancy

57

hcg hormone

51

hcg injection

48

pregnancy hcg

44

hcg test

43

hcg level during pregnancy

27

hcg shot

26

calculator hcg

25

hcg level early pregnancy

23

hcg pregnancy test

23

hcg and twin

21

hcg level miscarriage

21

hcg level after miscarriage

21

hcg level chart

20
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: HCG

Language Translations for "HCG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

gonadotropin releasing hormone-test (hCG test, human chorionic gonadotropin test). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

HCG-test (hCG test, human chorionic gonadotropin test). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

istukkagonadotropiinikoe (hCG test, human chorionic gonadotropin test). (various references)

   

French

  

test l'hormone chorionique gonadotrophique (hCG test), test l'HCG (hCG test). (various references)

   

German

  

HCG-Test (hCG test, human chorionic gonadotropin test). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

δοκιμασία χοριακής γοναδοτροπίνης (hCG test, human chorionic gonadotropin test), δοκιμασία HCG (hCG test, human chorionic gonadotropin test). (various references)

   

Italian

  

test dell'HCG (hCG test, human chorionic gonadotropin test), test della gonadotropina corionica (hCG test, human chorionic gonadotropin test). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

hcgay

   

Spanish

  

prueba de la HCG (hCG test, human chorionic gonadotropin test), prueba de la gonadotrofina coriónica (hCG test, human chorionic gonadotropin test). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HCG

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "c-g-h"
 

+1 letter: chug.

 

+2 letters: chang, chugs, cohog, cough, gulch.

 

+3 letters: aching, caught, change, changs, charge, chegoe, chigoe, chough, clough, cohogs, coughs, curagh, eching, gauche, gaucho, glitch, glunch, gothic, grinch, grouch, grutch.

 

+4 letters: arching, baching, caching, cashing, chafing, chagrin, changed, changer, changes, charged, charger, charges, charing, chasing, chawing, chegoes, chewing, chiding, chigger, chignon, chigoes, chiming, chining, choking, choragi, choregi, choring, choughs, chowing, chugged, chugger, chuting, claught, cloughs, coshing, coughed, cougher, cowhage, curaghs, curragh, echoing, etching, ganache, gaucher, gauchos, glitchy, glochid, glyphic, gnathic, gnocchi, gothics, gouache, graphic, grouchy, gulches, hacking, hagadic, hocking, hogback, inching, itching, leching, miching, milchig, niching, ochring, oghamic, ouching, peching, ruching, scraigh.

 

+5 letters: achingly, agalloch, agraphic, archings, batching, beaching, belching, benching, birching, bitching, botching, bunching, catching, catfight, chaffing, chagrins, chaining, chairing, chalking, champing, chancing, changers, changing, chantage, chanting, chapping, chargers, charging, charking, charming, charring, charting, chasings, chatting, cheating, checking, cheeking, cheeping, cheering, cheesing, cheffing, chemurgy, chevying, chigetai, chiggers, chignons, childing, chilidog, chilling, chinking, chinning, chipping, chirking, chirming, chirping, chirring, chitling, chivying, chocking, choiring, chomping, choosing, chopping, choragic, choragus, chording, choregus, chousing, chowsing, chroming, chucking, chuffing, chugalug, chuggers, chugging, chumming, chumping, chunking, churning, churring, cinching, clashing, claughts, clothing, coaching, cogwheel, cohering, couching, coughers, coughing, cowhages, crashing, crushing, curraghs, ditching, dogwatch, douching, echogram, etchings, euchring, exchange, fetching, filching, ganaches, gauchely, gauchest, gazpacho, glitches, glochids, glunched, glunches, godchild, gouaches, graphics, grinches, groschen, grouched, grouches, grutched, grutches, guacharo, gynarchy, hackling, haggadic, hatching, heckling, hiccough, highjack, hitching, hocusing, hogbacks, hoicking, hotching, hunching, hutching, hygienic, itchings, latching, leaching, leeching, letching, lichting, logomach, lunching, lurching, lynching, marching, matching, mooching, mouching, mulching, munching, nightcap, notching, ochering, oligarch, parching, patching, peaching, perching, pinchbug, pinching, pitching, poaching, pooching, pouching, psyching, punching, ranching, reaching, rechange, recharge, retching, roaching, ruchings, scathing, scheming, scraighs, scything, shocking, shucking, soochong, souchong, sphygmic, synching, taiglach, teaching, teiglach, thacking, theurgic, torching, touching, uncaught, uncharge, vouching, watchdog, watching, welching, wenching, whacking, winching, witching, yachting, zorching.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: HCG


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 43 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

....    -.-.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01000011 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#67 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0043 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

423741

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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