adjuvant
serving to help or assist; auxiliary: You'll be serving in an adjuvant capacity, on call if we need you.
Medicine/Medical. utilizing drugs, radiation therapy, or other means of supplemental treatment following cancer surgery or other primary cancer treatment: The cancer was caught at such an early stage that adjuvant measures were determined to be unnecessary.: Compare neoadjuvant.
a person or thing that aids or helps: a team of adjuvants.
Medicine/Medical, Pharmacology. anything that aids in the treatment of disease, management of pain, etc., especially a substance added to a medication to aid the effect of the main ingredient: For some in acute pain, caffeine is an effective analgesic adjuvant.
Immunology. a substance admixed with an immunogen in order to elicit a more marked immune response: Aluminum salts have been used as adjuvants in vaccines for many decades.
Origin of adjuvant
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How to use adjuvant in a sentence
Other vaccines, for example protein subunit types, make use of an adjuvant, which is a substance that jumpstarts the immune system.
A third, from Novavax, injects a lab-made version of a coronavirus protein along with an adjuvant to stimulate the immune system.
It includes an inactivated form of the virus and an adjuvant.
Here’s where all the COVID-19 vaccine candidates currently stand | Kate Baggaley | December 18, 2020 | Popular-ScienceIt’s formulated from adjuvants and proteins produced in the leaves of a plant related to tobacco that have had viral genes introduced into them.
Here’s where all the COVID-19 vaccine candidates currently stand | Kate Baggaley | December 18, 2020 | Popular-ScienceIt does not contain many ingredients commonly found in other vaccines, such as preservatives or adjuvants, which are used to make vaccines work better — and is not manufactured in human or animal cells.
FDA vows to move 'rapidly’ to authorize second coronavirus vaccine | Laurie McGinley, Carolyn Y. Johnson | December 18, 2020 | Washington Post
Fresh air is the most important adjuvant for this that we have.
Health Through Will Power | James J. WalshIn certain minor affections of a spasmodic character it, therefore, forms a valuable adjuvant to other remedies.
Insomnia; and Other Disorders of Sleep | Henry M. LymanIt is claimed to be a reconstructive tonic and blood-making adjuvant, with favorable action in affections of the glandular system.
There is no scientific evidence that it has any value either alone or as an adjuvant to sandal oil.
How the use of yeast as an adjuvant to otherwise inadequate food mixtures exerts its beneficial effect is not yet made clear.
British Dictionary definitions for adjuvant
/ (ˈædʒəvənt) /
aiding or assisting
something that aids or assists; auxiliary
med a drug or other substance that enhances the activity of another
immunol a substance that enhances the immune response stimulated by an antigen when injected with the antigen
Origin of adjuvant
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