Crossword clues for adjuvant
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 drug which enhances the effect of the active ingredient.
--Stedman.
Adjuvant \Ad"ju*vant\, n.
An assistant. [R.]
--Yelverton.(Med.) An ingredient, in a prescription, which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient.
Adjuvant \Ad"ju*vant\, a. [L. adjuvans, p. pr. of adjuvare to
aid: cf. F. adjuvant. See Aid.]
Helping; helpful; assisting. [R.] ``Adjuvant causes.''
--Howell.
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) Something that contains an adjuvant. (defdt: from 20th c.) n. 1 Someone who helps or facilitates; an assistant, a helper. (defdt: from 16th c.) 2 (context medicine English) Something that enhances the effectiveness of a medical treatment; a supplementary treatment. (defdt: from 18th c.) 3 (context pharmacology English) An additive (as in a drug) that aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient. (defdt: from 19th c.) 4 (context immunology English) A substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen. (defdt: from 20th c.)
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]
enhancing the action of a medical treatment; "the adjuvant action of certain bacteria"
n. an additive that enhances the effectiveness of medical treatment
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, thus minimizing the amount of injected foreign material. Adjuvants may also be used to enhance the efficacy of a vaccine by helping to modify the immune response to particular types of immune system cells: for example, by activating T cells instead of antibody-secreting B cells depending on the purpose of the vaccine. Adjuvants are also used in the production of antibodies from immunized animals. There are different classes of adjuvants that can push immune response in different directions, but the most commonly used adjuvants include aluminum hydroxide and paraffin oil.
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.