pregnancy test

noun

: a medical test to see if a woman is pregnant

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Like fainting, craving pickles, or struggling to wiggle into skinny jeans, vomiting, in the cultural imagination, is a stand-in for imminent motherhood, as legible as any pregnancy test. The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2026 However, the finale shows Oreana eyeing the positive results of a pregnancy test before asking Carter to run away together and start over. Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 3 July 2026 In the clip, Mollica could be seen looking at a pregnancy test and crying as Longo raced over to see the results. Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 29 June 2026 One of the investigators who received this funding, Andrew Levin of Kephera Diagnostics, leads a team that developed a prototype lateral flow assay, which works like a home pregnancy test but uses blood instead of urine. Lauren Schneider, Scientific American, 9 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for pregnancy test

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“Pregnancy test.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pregnancy%20test. Accessed 13 Aug. 2026.

Medical Definition

pregnancy test

noun
: a physiological test to determine the existence of pregnancy in an individual
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