pregnancy test
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2.5
- noun
- /ˈprɛɡnənsi tɛst/
:
prueba de embarazo
- Is that why you took that pregnancy test?
- home pregnancy test
- positive pregnancy test
- pregnancy test results
Everyone knows about over the counter pregnancy tests, peeing on a stick.
- Everyone knows about over the counter pregnancy tests, peeing on a stick.
- What can you even get a pregnancy test at a Hudson News in the airport?
- You see this second line on your pregnancy test and there you go.
- OK, so when you gave her that positive pregnancy test, you had already lost the baby?
- When the result of the pregnancy test was positive, my whole world changed.
- Well, I end up taking a pregnancy test the day before my appointment and it's positive.
- Love the tech first of its kind patented, but also just, you know, love the the social conversation it promotes flushable pregnancy test coming out great female founder.
- A month later my wife surprised me with a pregnancy test.
- The fact he literally made her made her take a pregnancy test a new one right in front of him.
Examples
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I took a home pregnancy test, and it said I was pregnant, so here we are.
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And now Carrie remembered the pregnancy test, which sat on the kitchen table.
Fiction book (2002) -
So her blood pregnancy test was negative.
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You see this second line on your pregnancy test and there you go.
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When the result of the pregnancy test was positive, my whole world changed.
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Well, I got three pregnancy test and they were all positive.
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The pregnancy test was positive, but I made an appointment with my doctor to make sure.
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I need a pregnancy test, and I've never bought one of those before.
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On the way home, she stopped off at Eckerd's and bought a home pregnancy test.
Fiction book (2002) -
When the result of the pregnancy test was positive, my whole world changed.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a medical test to determine if a woman is pregnant' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'pregnancy' (the condition of having a developing fetus) with 'test' (an examination to check or determine something). This compound noun follows straightforward compositional and cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Pregnancy test comes from a simple, everyday picture: a small medical check that tells if a woman is carrying a baby, often a paper strip that changes and shows lines when the answer is yes. So the words pregnancy, meaning 'having a baby', and test, meaning 'a check', come together to mean 'to find out if someone is pregnant'.