biochemistry

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From bio- +‎ chemistry

Noun

biochemistry (countable and uncountable; plural biochemistries)

1. (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.

2. (countable) The chemical characteristics of a particular living organism

   The biochemistries of fungal and bacterial cells are quite distinct.

3. (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.

Related terms

• biochemical
• biochemist
• organic chemistry

Translations

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

• Afrikaans: biochemie (af)
• Albanian: biokimi (sq) f
• Arabic: كيمياء حيوية (ar) (kīmiyāʾ ḥayawíyya) f
• Asturian: bioquímica (ast) f
• Azeri: biokimya (az)
• Basque: biokimika (eu)
• Belarusian: біяхімія (be) (bijaxímija) f
• Bulgarian: биохимия (bg) (biohímija) f
• Catalan: bioquímica f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 生物化學, 生物化学 (sang1 mat6 faa3 hok6)

  Mandarin: 生物化學 (cmn), 生物化学 (cmn) (shēngwùhuàxué)

• Czech: biochemie (cs) f
• Danish: biokemi (da)
• Dutch: biochemie (nl) f
• Esperanto: biokemio (eo)
• Estonian: biokeemia (et)
• Finnish: biokemia (fi)
• French: biochimie (fr) f
• Friulian: biochimiche
• Galician: bioquímica (gl) f
• German: Biochemie (de) f
• Greek: βιοχημεία (el) (viochimeía) f
• Hebrew: ביוכימיה (he) (biokhymia) f
• Hindi: जैवरसायनिकी (hi) (jaivarsāyanikī) f
• Hungarian: biokémia (hu)
• Icelandic: lífefnafræði (is)
• Ido: biokemio
• Indonesian: biokimia (id)
• Irish: bithcheimic (ga) f
• Italian: biochimica (it) f
• Japanese: 生化学 (ja) (せいかがく, seikagaku)
• Kabuverdianu:

  Badiu: biokimika f

• Khmer: ជីវរសាយន (km) (chiivɔɔ rea’saayan)
• Korean: 생화학 (ko) (saeng-hwahak) (生化學 (ko))
• Latin: biochemica (la) f
• Latvian: bioķīmija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: biochemija (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: biochimie
• Macedonian: биохемија (mk) (biohémija) f
• Malay: biokimia (ms)
• Mongolian: биохими (mn) (biohimi)
• Novial: biokemie
• Occitan: bioquimia (oc) f
• Persian: زیست‌شیمی (fa) (zist-šimi), بیوشیمی (fa) (biošimi)
• Polish: biochemia (pl) f
• Portuguese: bioquímica (pt) f
• Romanian: biochimie (ro) f
• Russian: биохимия (ru) (bioxímija) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: биохемија (sh) f, биокемија (sh) f

  Roman: biohemija (sh) f, biokemija (sh) f

• Slovak: biochémia (sk) f
• Slovene: biokemija (sl) f
• Spanish: bioquímica (es) f
• Sundanese: biokimia
• Swedish: biokemi (sv)
• Tagalog: biyokimika
• Thai: ชีวเคมี (th) (cheew-kây-mee)
• Turkish: biyokimya (tr)
• Ukrainian: біологічна хімія (uk) (biolohíčna xímija) f, біохімія (uk) (bioxímija) f
• Urdu: حیاتی کیمیاء (ur)
• Vietnamese: hóa sinh (vi) (化生 (vi))
• West Frisian: biogemy
• Yiddish: ביאכעמיע (yi)

the chemical characteristics of a particular living organism

• Finnish: biokemia (fi)