biochemistry

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Etymology

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: كِيمِيَاء حَيَوِيَّة‎ (ar) f (kīmiyāʾ ḥayawiyya)
• Asturian: bioquímica f
• Azerbaijani: biokimya
• Basque: biokimika
• Belarusian: біяхі́мія f (bijaxímija)
• Bulgarian: биохи́мия (bg) f (biohímija)
• Catalan: bioquímica f
• Chinese:

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

  Mandarin: 生物化學 (zh), 生物化学 (zh) (shēngwù huàxué)

  Min Nan: 生化學, 生化学 (seng-hoà-ha̍k)

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

  Badiu: biokimika f

• 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

• Finnish: biokemia (fi)