Occupation or Discipline
clinical chemistry
clin·i·cal chem·is·try [ klin-i-kuhl kem-uh-stree ]
Subclass of:
Science of Chemistry
Definitions related to chemistry, clinical:
  • (clinical chemistry) Application of chemical tests to health care, as in analysis of body fluid components.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • (clinical chemistry) The department responsible for performing chemical and enzymatic analyses of body fluids and tissues. (from Handbook of Medical Informatics)
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • The specialty of ANALYTIC CHEMISTRY applied to assays of physiologically important substances found in blood, urine, tissues, and other biological fluids for the purpose of aiding the physician in making a diagnosis or following therapy.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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