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BIOCHEMICAL MECHANISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does biochemical mechanism mean?
• BIOCHEMICAL MECHANISM (noun)
The noun BIOCHEMICAL MECHANISM has 1 sense:
1. a chemical mechanism involved in vital processes occurring in living organisms
Familiarity information: BIOCHEMICAL MECHANISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BIOCHEMICAL MECHANISM (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A chemical mechanism involved in vital processes occurring in living organisms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("biochemical mechanism" is a kind of...):
chemical mechanism; mechanism (the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction)
Context examples
The pathologic, physiologic, or biochemical mechanism resulting in the development of a disease or morbid process.
(Pathogenesis, NCI Thesaurus)
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