How to Use human chorionic gonadotropin in a Sentence

human chorionic gonadotropin

noun

• After that happens, the body starts to produce human chorionic gonadotropin, a chemical that is detected by pregnancy tests.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
• At-home pregnancy tests—including Lia—look for the presence of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in your pee.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 13 Dec. 2017
• Profar was suspended last year for 80 games of the season after testing positive for human chorionic gonadotropin.
  — Ken Sugiura, AJC.com, 3 Mar. 2026
• Another flags human chorionic gonadotropin, a marker of pregnancy.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
• Those little pee sticks look for the presence of the hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), which is produced during pregnancy.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 27 Oct. 2017
• When a woman gets pregnant, her body immediately starts making the hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG).
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• At-home pregnancy tests work by detecting the presence of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), which your body produces during pregnancy.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 8 Oct. 2018
• The bill also bars terminations of pregnancies confirmed by the presence of the hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG).
  — al, 13 Aug. 2019
• The only way to know for sure was to test my level of human chorionic gonadotropin, better known as hCG, a hormone that doubles every 72 hours in early pregnancy.
  — Megan Turchi, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Jan. 2023
• At-home pregnancy tests look for the presence of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), which is a hormone from your placenta (the organ that helps maintain and nourish a pregnancy).
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 13 Sep. 2018
• For example, when a woman becomes pregnant, her placenta produces human chorionic gonadotropin, or HCG.
  — Erin Blakemore, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2017
• For the unfamiliar, HCG stands for human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone made during pregnancy which has been used, incorrectly, for weight loss.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2021
• Pregnancy tests measure the level of a hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG for short) that's produced by the placenta — in other words, only present in pregnant people.
  — Hannah Orenstein, Seventeen, 13 Sep. 2017
• Prior to the introduction of Lupron, patients were triggered with an injection of human chorionic gonadotropin, which carried a risk of hyperstimulation.
  — Hannah Jackson, ELLE, 8 Dec. 2022
• Profar was suspended for 80 games of the 2025 season after testing positive for human chorionic gonadotropin.
  — Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 19 Mar. 2026
• Or people may take a pregnancy test before their bodies have produced a measurable amount of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), a hormone that pregnant people produce.
  — Melissa Matthews, SELF, 8 July 2022
• When undercover investigators showed up, posing as potential clients, Lopez allegedly offered them human chorionic gonadotropin, a prescription hormone, as well as meal-replacement powders and syringes.
  — Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019
• This marks Cushing's second positive test for performance enhancing drugs after testing positive for human chorionic gonadotropin (a fertility drug) as a rookie in 2010.
  — Chris Chavez, SI.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• The mini-placentas also produced hormones that typical placentas make such as human chorionic gonadotropin, the hormone many over-the-counter pregnancy tests measure, Moffett and colleagues report today in the journal Nature.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2018
• Callaway had blood tests done to monitor her levels of the pregnancy hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) — declining hCG levels typically indicate a miscarriage — and she was sent home.
  — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026
• The data didn’t lie — scientists identified physiological patterns that aligned with the fluctuation of key pregnancy hormones such as estrogen, progesterone, and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG).
  — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
• Because of her history, Waldron underwent a slew of early blood tests and ultrasounds with her high-risk fertility doctor that showed her levels of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), commonly called the pregnancy hormone, were up and down.
  — Kaelyn Forde, Glamour, 28 Oct. 2019