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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.

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Etymology of 'Adjuvant'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Adjuvant" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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

Words linked to "Adjuvant" : auxiliary, adjunct, ancillary, helpful, additive, accessory, pharmacological medicine, supportive, pharmacology, materia medica, appurtenant