Pregnancy Test

Definition: Pregnancy Test

Pregnancy Test

Noun

1. A physiological test to determine whether a person is pregnant.

Crosswords: Pregnancy Test

English words defined with "pregnancy test": Friedman test ♦ HCG, human chorionic gonadotrophin, human chorionic gonadotropin ♦ rabbit test. (references)

Specialty definitions using "pregnancy test": Pregnancy-Specific beta 1-Glycoprotein. (references)

Top

Specialty Definition: Pregnancy test

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A pregnancy test is a test to determine whether or not a woman is pregnant.

All tests currently available to test for the situation of being pregnant or not depend on testing for the presence of beta HCG or human chorionic gonadotropin in the blood or urine.

This hormone is only released by trophoblastic tissue, which usually is produced by a growing foetus and its associated placenta or, rarely, from a choriocarcinoma or some other germ cell tumours.

False negative readings (from home kits) can result from the sensitivity of the test being lower than the current concentration of the HCG in the woman's urine. This can occur quite commonly before the 6th week of pregnancy (defined as 6 weeks from the last menstrual period) - beta HCG levels rise exponentially in the first two months or so of pregnancy so the earlier the test is performed, the higher the chance of a false negative result.

False positive results can result from rare beta-HCG producing tumors like choriocarcinomas.

Doctors can also perform quantitative serum beta HCG levels.

This is commonly done in cases of suspected abortion, where a reading that is lower than the expected range of readings based on the patient's stated last menstrual period would be highly suggestive of a miscarriage.

Other uses of a quantitative beta HCG reading are in evaluation of ectopic pregnancy and in trophoblastic and other germ cell tumors.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pregnancy test."

Top

Modern Usage: Pregnancy Test

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

I didn't take a pregnancy test. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

Phoebe found your pregnancy test in the trash. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

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

Top

Non-Fiction Usage: Pregnancy Test

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		This important value is due to the fact that most products labeled by producers as OTC (pregnancy test excepted) are used for rapid tests in private labs and in most of the hospitals. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Top

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pregnancy Test

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
pregnancy test	2,627	best pregnancy test	34
home pregnancy test	605	clear blue pregnancy test	32
early pregnancy test	526	fact plus pregnancy test	29
online pregnancy test	296	pregnancy test comparison	29
ept pregnancy test	218	ept home pregnancy test	26
blood pregnancy test	193	drano pregnancy test	25
first response pregnancy test	167	positive pregnancy test	24
free pregnancy test	133	on line pregnancy test	24
false negative pregnancy test	99	first response early pregnancy test	23
accuracy of pregnancy test	85	hcg pregnancy test	23
negative pregnancy test	84	free online pregnancy test	22
false positive pregnancy test	78	accurate pregnancy test	22
when to take pregnancy test	70	false pregnancy test	22
answer pregnancy test	65	home made pregnancy test	22
accuracy of home pregnancy test	44	pregnancy test how soon	21
pregnancy test result	40	pregnancy test kit	21
e.p.t pregnancy test	39	earliest pregnancy test	20
pregnancy test sensitivity	38	best home pregnancy test	20
equate pregnancy test	38	late period negative pregnancy test	20
faint line pregnancy test	36	missed negative period pregnancy test	19
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Modern Translation: Pregnancy Test

Language		Translations for "pregnancy test"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏فحص الحمل. (various references)

Danish		svangerskabsreaktion (gestational reaction in newborn), svangerskabsprøve, graviditetstest. (various references)

Dutch		zwangerschapstest, zwangerschapsreactie. (various references)

Finnish		raskaustesti. (various references)

French		test de grossesse. (various references)

German		Schwangerschaftstest. (various references)

Greek		δοκιμασία εγκυμοσύνης του Delfs (Delfs pregnancy test). (various references)

Italian		prova biologica della gravidanza, test di gravidanza. (various references)

Pig Latin		egnancypray esttay

Portuguese		teste de gravidez. (various references)

Spanish		prueba del embarazo. (various references)

Swedish		graviditetstest. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top

Anagrams: Pregnancy Test

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-n-n-p-r-s-t-t-y"
	-3 letters: penetrants.
	-4 letters: antetypes, centenary, entrances, penetrant, preenacts, pregnancy, renascent, repentant, sergeancy, sergeanty, tangences.
	-5 letters: ancestry, antetype, canteens, cayennes, centares, centners, cytaster, encrypts, entrance, entrants, entreats, entreaty, estrange, grantees, greatens, greatest, negaters, pangenes, patterns, peartest, pectates, penances, pentanes, percents, precents, preenact, pregnant, pretaste, ratteens, reagents, reascent, reenacts, regnancy, sarcenet, sergeant, setenant, spectate, strategy, tangence.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.