Main > Medical terms> Biochemistry

Biochemistry

Biochemistry (Greek bios – life, belonging to life, to vital processes + Greek chymeia, from chymos – juice) – the science investigating the chemical nature of the substances which are in structure of live organisms and the chemical processes which are the cornerstone of them life activity.

Types of biochemistry:

  • Age – engaged in studying of features of chemical composition of body tissues and exchange processes during various age periods;
  • Dynamic – researching a metabolism in an organism from the moment of intake of nutrients in it before emergence of end products of exchange, and also mechanisms of neutralization of toxic products, their removal from an organism and regulation of speed of the corresponding transformations;
  • Clinical – carrying out studying of changes of chemical composition and metabolism in bodies, fabrics and fluid mediums at various morbid conditions of an organism; methods of biochemistry clinical are applied to assessment of efficiency of treatment of diseases and their diagnosis;
  • Radiation – studying the changes of a metabolism arising in an organism as a result of ionizing radiation;
  • Functional – engaged in studying of the chemical transformations which are the cornerstone of functions of fabrics, bodies and an organism in general.
 
Whether you know that:

At regular visit of a sunbed the chance to develop a carcinoma cutaneum increases by 60%.