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Definition of Adjuvant

1. Noun. An additive that enhances the effectiveness of medical treatment.

2. Adjective. Furnishing added support. "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other"

3. Adjective. Enhancing the action of a medical treatment. "The adjuvant action of certain bacteria"

Definition of Adjuvant

1. a. Helping; helpful; assisting.

2. n. An assistant.

Definition of Adjuvant

1. an assistant [n -S] - See also: assistant

Medical Definition of Adjuvant

1. 1. A substance that, when added to a medicine, speeds or improves its action which aids another, such as an auxiliary remedy 2. A substance added to a vaccine to improve the immune response so that less vaccine is needed to produce a non-specific stimulator (for example, BCG vaccine) of the immune response. Origin: L. Adjuvans = aiding (18 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adjuvant

adjustors adjusts adjutage adjutages adjutancies adjutancy adjutancy adjutant adjutant adjutants

adjutant bird adjutant general adjutant stork adjutrix adjuvant (current term) adjuvant (current term) adjuvants adjuvant analgesic adjuvant chemotherapy adjuvant therapy

adjuvant vaccine ADL Adlai Ewing Stevenson Adlai Stevenson adland adlands Adler's test adlerian psychoanalysis adlerian psychology Adlumia

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