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noun

Adjuvant n.

An assistant. (R.)

(Med.) An ingredient in a prescription drug, which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient.

(Med., Immunology) A substance that non-specifically enhances immune response to an antigen, such as by enhancing the production of antibodies.

adjective

Adjuvant adj. Helping; helpful; assisting. (R.) "Adjuvant causes."

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Etymology of 'Adjuvant'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Adjuvant" Quotes from Famous Books

... none took part in my life who did not contribute something towards my well-being. It must, of course, be understood that I make no distinction between mental and material help; and in my case the one has ever been adjuvant to the other. "Pooh, pooh!" again exclaims the reader; "I for one will not believe that chance has only sent across your way the people who were required to assist you." Chance! dear reader, is there such a thing as chance? Do you ...

— Confessions of a Young Man • George Moore

... extravagant claims made for other Springs,) that its properties are characteristic, and as clinically trustworthy as are those of terebinthina, lithia, or many other of the partially proven drugs. I have found it surprisingly gratifying as an adjuvant in the cure of albuminuria, and in lowering the specific gravity of the urine in Saccharine Diabetes its action is promptly and lastingly helpful. It is mildly cathartic ...

— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 • Various

... according to the state of his mind at the moment. He delighted in a work of art, both for what it was in itself and for what it could lend him; he would fain go along with it, thanks to it, as though sustained by an adjuvant, as though borne in a vehicle, into a sphere where his sublimated sensations would wake in him an unaccustomed stir, the cause of which he would long and vainly seek to determine.' So he comes to care supremely for Baudelaire, ...

— Figures of Several Centuries • Arthur Symons

... the laws of life, and with virulent virtue and protest condemn love—that is to say, love in the sense of sexual intercourse—and proclaim a higher mission for woman than to be the mother of men: and an adjuvant, unless corrected by sanative qualities of a high order, is, of course, found in any physical defect. But as the corporeal and incorporeal hereditaments of Alice Barton and Lady Cecilia Cullen were examined fully ...

— Muslin • George Moore

... refer to your luxuries as preliminary to—ah— matrimony, which is said to be the only gainful occupation that my sex leaves almost exclusively to yours, and in which fine clothing is undoubtedly an adjuvant. But observation leads me to think that it is a business less profitable than ...

— The Bacillus of Beauty - A Romance of To-day • Harriet Stark

... support. Biology teaches us that the male sex was invented for this purpose; doubtless one should say for this "increasing purpose," since it is scarcely more than foreshadowed at first in the history of the male sex. The study of life has clearly proved that the male sex is secondary and adjuvant, and that its essentially auxiliary functions for the race have been increasing from the beginning until we find them in perfection wherever two parents join in common consecration and devotion to their supreme task, upon which all else depends and without ...

— Woman and Womanhood - A Search for Principles • C. W. Saleeby