PREGNANCY TEST

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A physiological test to determine whether a woman is pregnant

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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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