BIOCHEMISTRY

n. Bi-o-ke?m'i*st-ri, Lat., biochemia (from Bios, life, and xnucia, chemistry), Fr., biochimie. Ger., Biochemie. The chemistry of living organisms or ti ues; a term properly including both animal and vegetable chemistry, but denoting especially the chemistry of living as distinguished from dead matter, or chemistry in its relations to the phenomena of life and the vital proce es. tet