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adjuvant
/ˈæd͡ʒəv(ə)nt/
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What does adjuvant mean?
adjective
- Providing assistance or help; assistive, facilitative, helpful.
- Enhancing the immune response to an antigen; also, containing a substance having such an effect.
- Of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary; specifically (oncology), of a cancer treatment: given after removal of a primary tumour.
More meanings (4)
noun
- An additive (often a separate product) that enhances the efficacy of a pesticide, but has little or no pesticidal effect itself.
- A substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen.
- A form of therapy or treatment which is additional or supplementary to another, or which enhances the effectiveness of another.
- (archaic) An additive which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient of a drug.
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Where it does not disagree with the patient, milk is the best adjuvant possible to the diet.