biochemistryn.
/ˌbʌɪə(ʊ)ˈkɛmᵻstri/, U.S. /ˌbaɪoʊˈkɛməstri/, /ˌbaɪəˈkɛməstri/ 1. The branch of science concerned with the chemical substances, reactions, and physico-chemical processes which occur within living organisms; biological or physiological chemistry. Also: the chemical substances and processes of this kind.
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organic chemistry1827
physiological chemistry1845
biochemistry1848
biological chemistry1865
biochem1968
the world > matter > chemistry > chemistry as a science > branches of chemistry > [noun]
physical chemistry1743
zymology1753
pneumatic chemistry1788
stoicheiometry1807
electrochemistry1811
phytochemistry1837
thermochemistry1844
actinochemistry1845
inorganic chemistry1847
phytochimy1847
biochemistry1848
microchemistry1853
palaeochemistry1854
actinology1855
photochemistry1860
physico-chemistry1860
zymotechny1860
anorganology1876
kinetics1884
structural chemistry1884
stereochemistry1890
spectrochemistry1893
cytochemistry1900
radiochemistry1904
immunochemistry1907
magnetochemistry1914
leptonology1917
surface chemistry1919
crystal chemistry1921
radiation chemistry1926
leptology1928
mechanochemistry1928
agrochemistry1930
sonochemistry1934
quantum chemistry1938
cosmochemistry1940
polymer chemistry1945
conductometry1946
topochemistry1948
proto-chemistry1962
stereology1963
biochem1968
femtochemistry1988
combinatorial chemistry1992
cheminformatics1996
1848 Lancet 3 June 609 The multitude who experienced, on their first promulgation, a kind of fascination from the bio-chemistry of the illustrious Liebig.
1881 M. D. Walker tr. W. H. Schüssler Cure of Diphtheria by Biochemic Treatm. 16 My system, or method of Procedure, is direct Biochemistry, because I use only tissue-cell-salts.
1891 Science 17 July 32/1 Under the advance of biochemistry it has become possible to apply to each kind of tissue its own definite and peculiar salt.
1902 Nature 14 Aug. 381/2 The chair of biochemistry recently founded in University College [Liverpool].
1942 W. H. Peters Livestock Production iii. 25 Knowledge of the existence of the group of substances called ‘vitamins’ and the purposes they serve in nutrition is the most recent major contribution of the science of biochemistry.
1978 Sci. Amer. Sept. 87/1 No living organism is biochemically identical with its Precambrian antecedents, but vestiges of earlier biochemistries have been retained.
1991 Lancet 3 Aug. 276/2 (advt.) Endometrial histology and biochemistry in climacteric women during oestrogen and oestrogen/progestogen therapy.
2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees vi. 133 The many fine trees of the genus Ocotea are prized both for their beautiful timber and for their broader biochemistry.
2. Alternative Medicine. A system of medicine and remedies related to homeopathy, based on maintaining and restoring the balance in the mineral constituents normally present in human cells.
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1881 M. D. Walker in tr. W. H. Schüssler Cure of Diphtheria by Biochemic Treatm. App. 19 Although Dr Schussler gives molecules of inorganic cell salts (infinitesimals) as remedies, biochemistry is not homœopathy.
1922 Homoeopathic Director 3 34 Biochemistry is simply a matter of dietetics.
2003 M. L. Gallert New Light on Therapeutic Energies 133 Another type of response to the pressure for increased effectiveness of homoeopathic remedies led to the development of homoeopathic biochemistry.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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