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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesbioquímica
Pronunciation / Transliteration: bioquímica
"Os estudos de bioquímica são essenciais para a medicina."
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The branch of science concerned with the chemical and physicochemical processes and substances that occur within living organisms.
"She is majoring in biochemistry to understand how enzymes function."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
The term 'biochemistry' is derived from the combination of 'bio-', meaning life, from the Greek 'bios', and 'chemistry', from the Greek 'khēmia', which refers to the study of substances and their interactions. The term began to be used in the early 20th century as the field of study emerged that focused on the chemical processes within and related to living organisms.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Biochemistry" is said worldwide
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biochimie
Transliteration: biochimie
"Il étudie la biochimie à l'université."
Biochemie
Transliteration: Biochemie
"Biochemie ist ein faszinierendes Forschungsgebiet."
biochimica
Transliteration: biochimica
"La biochimica spiega i processi vitali a livello molecolare."
bioquímica
Transliteration: bioquímica
"La bioquímica analiza la composición química de los seres vivos."
bioquímica
Transliteration: bioquímica
"Os estudos de bioquímica são essenciais para a medicina."
जैव रसायन
Transliteration: jaiv rasayan
"वह विश्वविद्यालय में जैव रसायन पढ़ रहा है।"
生物化学
Transliteration: shēngwù huàxué
"生物化学是医学生必修的一门课程。"
생화학
Transliteration: saenghwahak
"그녀는 생화학 분야에서 박사 학위를 받았습니다."
生化学
Transliteration: seikagaku
"生化学の実験室で新しい発見があった。"
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