HCG
HCG
Definition
HCG (āc̸h′sē′jē′)
noun
a placental hormone that stimulates the ovaries to produce other hormones that prevent menstruation: its presence in the urine indicates pregnancy, and it is used as a fertility drug
Etymology: h(uman) c(horionic) g(onadotropin)
HCG
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- withhold: If an excessive response is obtained, treatment should be stopped and hCG withheld ( see section 4.4 ).
- use: Most of these early pregnancy losses would not have been detectable by the less sensitive assays for hCG used in earlier studies.
- detect: Clearview HCG can detect hCG in urine at concentrations ≥ 25 mIU/ml.
- spot: So, some tests are better than others at spotting hCG early on.
- call: In addition to measuring AFP, another substance produced during pregnancy called hCG is also measured.
Preposition: in
- urine: Who uses them - The amount of hCG in the urine at different points in early pregnancy is different for every woman.
Adjective modifier
- urinary: It shares the amino acid sequence with urinary hCG.
- maternal: Top Our group could not find out why maternal serum hCG was used as an indicator of risk of carrying a Down syndrome baby.
Modifies a noun
- administration: Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome due to excessive ovarian response can be avoided by withholding hCG administration.
- testing: Frequently miscarriages are monitored with quantitative blood hCG testing.
- test: Urine hCG tests may give a false negative result in very dilute urine.
- level: I was also told to avoid folic acid until my hCG levels had dropped to below 20.
- injection: I did the hcg injection in my left thigh.
- receptor: It is known that decreases in hCG receptor levels may lead to contractions in the womb and labor.
Noun used with modifier
- urine: Urine hCG tests may give a false negative result in very dilute urine.
- serum: There are reports of false positive serum hCG results due to several different compounds ( not drugs ) that may interfere with the test.
- blood: Frequently miscarriages are monitored with quantitative blood hCG testing.
- hormone: There, urine samples will be tested at regular intervals to ensure the pregnancy hormone hCG is disappearing.
