hcg

IPA: ˈeɪtʃsg

Root Word: hCG

Initialism of human chorionic gonadotropin. [(medicine, biochemistry) A peptide hormone, produced during pregnancy, that prevents the breakdown of the corpus luteum and maintains progesterone production.]
(astronomy) Abbreviation of Hickson compact group. [(astronomy) A collection of galaxies designated as published by Paul Hickson in 1982.]
(medicine) Abbreviation of HLA complex group. (human leukocyte antigen complex group)
(medicine) Abbreviation of human chorionic gonadotropin. [(medicine, biochemistry) A peptide hormone, produced during pregnancy, that prevents the breakdown of the corpus luteum and maintains progesterone production.]

Examples of "hcg" in Sentences

I'll be honest here, I don't know a whole lot about hcg dieting.
The hcg diet protocol is basically a plan that goes with the use of hcg for weight loss.
The hcg level, as it was called, would be a surrogate for the cancer, its fingerprint in the blood.
The hcg level—the hormone secreted by choriocarcinoma—had turned out to be its real fingerprint, its marker.
So if you are studying pregnancy outcomes, how you diagnose the pregnancy will affect your miscarriage rate - will you use hcg levels or clinical diagnosis?
In the end, he seemed almost to be treating a number rather than a patient; ignoring the added toxicity of additional rounds of the drug, Li doggedly administered dose upon dose until, at last, the hcg level sank to zero.