HCG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does HCG mean? 

• HCG (noun)
  The noun HCG has 1 sense:

1. hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta; detection in the urine and serum is the basis for one kind of pregnancy test

  Familiarity information: HCG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HCG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta; detection in the urine and serum is the basis for one kind of pregnancy test

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

HCG; human chorionic gonadotrophin; human chorionic gonadotropin

Hypernyms ("HCG" is a kind of...):

gonadotrophic hormone; gonadotrophin; gonadotropic hormone; gonadotropin (hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and placenta; stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity)

 Context examples 

Vaccination with CTP-37 may stimulate the host immune system to produce antibodies against beta-HCG, leading to a decrease in the proliferation of tumor cells that overexpress beta-HCG.

(CTP-37, NCI Thesaurus)