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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr.

βίοσ

life + E.

chemistry

(Biol.)

The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.

biochemistry ‎(countable and uncountable, plural biochemistries)

(uncountable) The chemistry of those compounds that occur in living organisms, and the processes that occur in their metabolism and catabolism
I want to study biochemistry.
(countable) The chemical characteristics of a particular living organism
The biochemistries of fungal and bacterial cells are quite distinct.
(countable) The biochemical activity associated with a particular chemical or condition

Our study compared the biochemistries of epilepsy and Parkinson's.

The biochemistry of NO differs from that of NO2.

the chemistry of those compounds that occur in living organisms, and the processes that occur in their metabolism and catabolism

Khmer: ជីវរសាយន ‎(chiivɔɔ rea’saayan)
Korean: 생화학 (ko) ‎(saeng-hwahak) (生化學 (ko))
Latin: biochemica f
Latvian: bioķīmija f
Lithuanian: biochemija f
Luxembourgish: Biochimie
Macedonian: биохемија f ‎(biohemija)
Malay: biokimia
Mongolian: биохими ‎(biohimi)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: biokjemi m

Nynorsk: biokjemi m
Novial: biokemie
Occitan: bioquimia f
Persian: زیست‌شیمی (fa) ‎(zist-šimi), بیوشیمی (fa) ‎(biošimi)
Polish: biochemia (pl) f
Portuguese: bioquímica (pt) f
Romanian: biochimie (ro) f
Russian: биохи́мия (ru) f ‎(bioxímija)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: биохемија f, биокемија f

Roman: biohemija f, biokemija (sh) f
Slovak: biochémia f
Slovene: biokemija (sl) f
Spanish: bioquímica (es) f
Sundanese: biokimia
Swedish: biokemi (sv)
Tagalog: biyokimika, haykapnayan
Thai: ชีวเคมี (th) ‎(cheew-kây-mee)
Turkish: biyokimya (tr)
Ukrainian: біологі́чна хі́мія f ‎(biolohíčna xímija), біохі́мія (uk) f ‎(bioxímija)
Urdu: حیاتی کیمیاء
Vietnamese: hóa sinh (化生)
West Frisian: biogemy
Yiddish: ביאָכעמיע ‎(byokhemye)

the chemical characteristics of a particular living organism