zoochemistry

See also: zoöchemistry

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Etymology

zoo- +‎ chemistry

Noun

zoochemistry (uncountable)

  1. Animal chemistry; particularly, the description of the chemical compounds entering into the composition of the animal body, in distinction from biochemistry.
    • 2013, Gilbert Gottlieb, Behavioral Embryology:
      In 1865, he did advanced study in Zoophysics and Zoochemistry while on the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Bonn, and he received his medical degree in 1866.

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