adjuvant
adjEtymology
Learned borrowing from Latin adiuvant-, adjuvant- + English -ant (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘exhibiting a condition or process’; and forming agent nouns). Adiuvant-, adjuvant- are oblique stems of adiuvāns, adjuvāns (“assisting, helping”), the present active participle of adiuvō (“to assist, help; to be useful; etc.”), from ad- (“prefix meaning ‘to; toward’”) + iuvō (“to aid, help; to save”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ewH- (“to assist, help; to save”)). Adjective sense 3 (“of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary”) and noun sense 1.4 (“additive which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient of a drug”) are possibly derived from French adjuvant (adjective, noun).
- derived from adjuvant
Definitions
Providing assistance or help
Providing assistance or help; assistive, facilitative, helpful.
Enhancing the immune response to an antigen
Enhancing the immune response to an antigen; also, containing a substance having such an effect.
Of a form of therapy or treatment
Of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary; specifically (oncology), of a cancer treatment: given after removal of a primary tumour.
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Someone or (more commonly) something that assists, facilitates, or helps
Someone or (more commonly) something that assists, facilitates, or helps; an aid, an assistant, a helper.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for adjuvant. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA