biochemistry
(baɪəˈkɛmɪstrɪ)
[f. bio- + chemistry, after biochemical a. Cf. G. biochemie.]
The science dealing with the substances present in living organisms and with their relation to each other and to the life of the organism; biological or physiological chemistry.
| 1881 M. D. Walker tr. Schüssler's Cure of Diptheria by Biochemic Treatment 16 My system, or method of Procedure, is direct Biochemistry, because I use only tissue-cell-salts. 1902 Nature 14 Aug. 381/2 The chair of biochemistry recently founded in University College [Liverpool]. 1904 R. Meldola Vital Products I. p. v, I am not without hope that it may be found of service as a step towards the foundation of a more exact science of Biochemistry. 1926 Encycl. Brit. I. 373/2 Biochemistry may be defined as the study of the chemical or physico-chemical processes which play a part in the life phenomena of plants and animals. 1943 Endeavour Apr. 41/1 Dramatic progress..continues to be made in the applications of biochemistry to the eradication of disease. |