Miscarriage is the spontaneous loss of a pregnancy before 20 weeks gestation, according to the Mayo Clinic. Miscarriage may result in low hCG levels. A pregnancy that fails to develop a placenta may not excrete higher levels of hCG.
Leviathan [(luh-veye-uh-thuhn)] A sea monster mentioned in the Book of Job, where it is associated with the forces of chaos and evil. Note: Figuratively, a âleviathanâ is any enormous beast.Note: Leviathan is a work on politics by the seventeenth-century English author Thomas Hobbes.
Hobbes calls this figure the Leviathan, a word derived from the Hebrew for sea monster and the name of a monstrous sea creature appearing in the Bible; the image constitutes the definitive metaphor for Hobbes's perfect government.