immunochemistry

n.
The chemistry of immunologic phenomena, as of antigen-antibody reactions.

immunochemical im'mu·no·chem'i·cal (-ĭ-kəl) adj.
immunochemically im'mu·no·chem'i·cal·ly adv.

A discipline concerned both with the structure of antibody (immunoglobulin) molecules and with their ability to bind an apparently limitless number of diverse chemical structures (antigens); with the structure, organization, and rearrangement of the genes coding for the immunoglobulin molecules; and with the structure and function of molecules on the surface of animal cells, such as the transplantation (histocompatibility) antigens, which recognize antibodies and the thymus-derived lymphocytes mediating the cellular immune response. See also Antigen; Immunoassay; Immunoglobulin; Radioimmunoassay; Transplantation biology.

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(ĭm'yə-nō-kĕm'ĭ-strē, ĭ-myū'-)
n.

The chemistry of immunologic phenomena, as of antigen-antibody reactions.

The study of the chemical basis of immune phenomena and their interactions.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: the field of chemistry concerned with chemical processes in immunology (such as chemical studies of antigens and antibodies)
  Synonym: chemoimmunology

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