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pregnancy test

DEFINITIONS OF: pregnancy test

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n a physiological test to determine whether a woman is pregnant

Types:
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
Type 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
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