early pregnancy test


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early pregnancy test

 
a do-it-yourself immunological pregnancy test, performed as early as 9 days after menstruation (missed period) was expected. Test materials consist of a mixture of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) antiserum and HCG-coated red blood cells in a glass test tube, a vial of water, and a medicine dropper.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.
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