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)

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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)