pregnancy test

/ˌprɛgnənsi tɛst/
/ˈprɛgnənsi tɛst/
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Other forms: pregnancy tests

Definitions of pregnancy test
  1. noun
    a physiological test to determine whether a woman is pregnant
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    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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