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PREGNANCY TEST
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I. (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)
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