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biochemical pregnancy
Pregnancy diagnosed by the detection of human chorionic gonadotropin hormone in serum or urine and which is terminated spontaneously and early.
Grammatical category Noun
Field Anatomy, physiology and embryology
Level of specialization High
Definition source glosario de Fertilidad
Gender relationship Yes, woman
Specific to one sex Yes
Prevalence Woman
Variants
Abbreviation
BP
Informal
Synonym
chemical pregnancy
Formal
non-visualized pregnancy
Formal
pregnancy of unknown location (PUL)
Formal
Antonym
Formal
Hypernym
early miscarriage
Standard
pregnancy loss
Formal
Equivalents

Spanish

embarazo bioquímico

Valenciano

embaràs bioquímic
Associated concepts
May cause
emotional distress
Examples
The clinical miscarriage rate (CMR) reflected the losses of ultrasound-detected pregnancies prior to 20-24 weeks of gestation, while the biochemical miscarriage rate (BMR) was calculated with the number of biochemical pregnancies (detected by positive serum β-hCG values, without visualization of the gestational sac in the first 10 weeks of gestation), over the total number of pregnancies.
The biochemical pregnancy rate is the number of pregnancies diagnosed only by beta-HCG detection without a gestational sac visualized by vaginal ultrasound at the fifth week of pregnancy per number of pregnancies.
Collocations
WITH ADJECTIVES
repeated | recurrent biochemical pregnancy 
WITH NOUNS
biochemical pregnancy rate || outcomes
WITH VERBS
biochemical pregnancy is achieved