biomedical engineering

American  

noun

1. bioengineering.

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biomedical engineering Scientific  

/ bī′ō-mĕd′ĭ-kəl /

1. The application of engineering techniques to the understanding of biological systems and to the development of therapeutic technologies and devices. Kidney dialysis, pacemakers, synthetic skin, artificial joints, and protheses are some products of biomedical engineering.

2. Also called bioengineering

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Etymology

Origin of biomedical engineering

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

Jennifer Lee, a master's student in biomedical engineering, worked in Dr. Abhishek Jain's lab to design an advanced vessel-chip capable of reproducing the wide range of shapes seen in real blood vessels.

From Science Daily

Both projects were carried out in the Bioinspired Translational Microsystems Laboratory under Jain, who is an associate professor and the Barbara and Ralph Cox '53 faculty fellow in biomedical engineering.

From Science Daily

To better represent the true structure of human blood vessels, researchers in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University have created a customizable vessel-chip system.

From Science Daily

The findings were published in Nature Biomedical Engineering.

From Science Daily

The Shinawatras have produced no fewer than four Thai prime ministers this century, and Pheu Thai's latest nominee for the position, biomedical engineering professor Yodchanan Wongsawat, was Thaksin's nephew.

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