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An additive that enhances the effectiveness of medical treatment
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adjuvant
Word definitions for adjuvant in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An adjuvant is a pharmacological or immunological agent that modifies the effect of other agents. Adjuvants may be added to a vaccine to modify the immune response by boosting it such as to give a higher amount of antibodies and a longer-lasting protection, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adjuvant \Ad"ju*vant\ ([a^]d"j[-u]*vant), n. [L. adjuvamentum, fr. adjuvare to help; ad + juvare to help.] (Immunology) A substance added to an immunogenic agent to enhance the production of antibodies. --Stedman. A substance added to a formulation of a ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating to something that is added but is not essential; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxilliary to each other" [syn: accessory , adjunct , ancillary , appurtenant , auxiliary , subsidiary ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Helping; helpful; assisting. (defdt: from 16th c.) 2 (cx medicine English) Designating a supplementary form of treatment; specifically, a cancer therapy administered after removal of a primary tumour. (defdt: from 19th c.) 3 (cx immunology English) ...
Usage examples of adjuvant.
Hence the praemotio physica of the Thomists, and the praevenient and adjuvant grace of the theologians, without which no one can begin the Christian life, and which must needs be supernatural when the end is supernatural.
Marghe wondered how she had been able to tell about the cumulative toxic effect of the adjuvants just from that test, but had not doubted that she could, and was glad to find someone who thought she could help her body get rid of them.
The vaccine you took, the poisons, the adjuvants, they would have kept away, pushed down, your need for sex.
The teams are all looking at variants on a simple, cheap technique that involves putting antigen genes into harmless bacteria that will double as delivery vehicles and adjuvants, then freeze-drying them into spores that can survive tropical heat without refrigeration.
We have him on the antimicrobials and adjuvants which the South Carolina virus responded to.
Development is always the resultant of two factors, the one the thing itself, the other some external force co-operating with it, exciting it, and aiding it to act. Hence the praemotio physica of the Thomists, and the praevenient and adjuvant grace of the theologians, without which no one can begin the Christian life, and which must needs be supernatural when the end is supernatural.
Marghe wondered how she had been able to tell about the cumulative toxic effect of the adjuvants just from that test, but had not doubted that she could, and was glad to find someone who thought she could help her body get rid of them.
The vaccine you took, the poisons, the adjuvants, they would have kept away, pushed down, your need for sex.
Hence the praemotio physica of the Thomists, and the praevenient and adjuvant grace of the theologians, without which no one can begin the Christian life, and which must needs be supernatural when the end is supernatural.
We have him on the antimicrobials and adjuvants which the South Carolina virus responded to.
We have him on the antimicrobials and adjuvants which the South Carolina virus responded to.
The dose is 2 to 1 fluid drachm, but it is, as stated, chiefly used as an adjuvant rather than for its slightly laxative and expectorant qualities, though used as a gargle, it will relieve sore throat.
The chief use of Juniper is as an adjuvant to diuretics in dropsy depending on heart, liver or kidney disease.
We have metabolizers and adjuvants, and if it's the South Carolina virus, we've an analogue and a vaccine.