Freund's adjuvant
[ froindz ]
nounImmunology.
a water-in-oil emulsion injected with immunogen (Freund's incomplete adjuvant ) or with immunogen and killed mycobacteria (Freund's complete adjuvant ) to enhance the immune response to the immunogen.
Origin of Freund's adjuvant
11945–50; after Jules Freund (1891–1960), Hungarian-born U.S. immunologist
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