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Research
124,220 papers- Pregnancy evaluation with a point-of-care pregnancy test in dairy cattle.Theriogenology · 2024
- What the pregnancy test is testing.The British journal of sociology · 2020
- False Positive Pregnancy Test Before Kidney Transplant: Case Report and Review of Literature.Transplantation proceedings · 2022
- The hCG assay or pregnancy test.Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine · 2012
- False-positive pregnancy test: beware of familial hCG syndrome.Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine · 2021
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Encyclopedic overview
A modern hormone pregnancy test, showing a positive result A series of pregnancy test strips, taken one per day at the beginning of a pregnancy A pregnancy test is used to determine whether a woman is pregnant or not. The two primary methods are testing for the pregnancy hormone (human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)) in blood or urine using a pregnancy test kit, and scanning with ultrasonography. Testing blood for hCG results in the earliest detection of pregnancy. Almost all pregnant women will have a positive urine pregnancy test one week after the first day of a missed menstrual period.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pregnancy test” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.