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Biochemistry vs Biomedical - What's the difference?

biochemistry | biomedical |

As a noun biochemistry

is (uncountable) the chemistry of those compounds that occur in living organisms, and the processes that occur in their metabolism and catabolism.

As an adjective biomedical is

biomedical (pertaining to biomedicine).

biochemistry

Noun

  • (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 .
  • (countable) The chemical characteristics of a particular living organism
  • The biochemistries of fungal and bacterial cells are quite distinct.
  • (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.

    biomedical

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to biomedicine.
  • * 2006 , Mwenda Ntarangwi, David Mills, Mustafa H. M. Babiker (editors), African anthropologies: history, critique, and practice , page 253:
  • The research problem was biomedical' in nature but the research approach adopted was multidisciplinary, with '''biomedical''', psychological and anthropological aspects. Despite joint efforts, our ' biomedical colleagues felt that [...]
  • * 2007 , Athena McLean, The person in dementia: a study in nursing home care in the US , page 28:
  • Alzheimer's disease and related dementias have come to be defined as biomedical in nature.
  • * 2011 , Gosia M. Brykczy?ska, Joan Simons, Ethical and Philosophical Aspects of Nursing Children and Young People , page 208:
  • Clearly, some research undertaken by children's nurses is biomedical in nature although a significant amount of contemporary research is qualitative focusing on children's experiences and evaluating services.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A product of the biomedicine industry.