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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Adjuvant" Quotes from Famous Books

... than animals, and we love through the imagination, at least the imagination stimulates the senses, acting as a sort of adjuvant. The barmaid falls in love with No. 1 because he wipes a glass better than No. 2, and Mary fell in love with Coppee on account of his sonnet "Le Lys," and she grew indifferent when he wrote poems like "La Nourrice" or "Le petit epicier de Montrouge qui cassait le sucre avec melancolie." ...

— Memoirs of My Dead Life • George Moore

... twentieth century breaks with a new promise of emancipation to English Literature, for a new influence has freshened the blood of conventional style that in the decadence of the End of the Century had grown dilute. This adjuvant strain is found in the enthusiasm of Slang. Slowly its rhetorical power has won foothold in the language. It has won many a verb and substantive, it has conquered idiom and diction, and now it is strong enough to assault the very syntax ...

— The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum • Wallace Irwin

... his appearance. His wife paid no heed to him as he entered; Emily glanced at him furtively. He had the look of a man who has predetermined an attitude of easy good-humour, nor had the parting with Cheeseman failed to prove an occasion for fresh recourse to that fiery adjuvant which of a sudden was become indispensable to him. Want of taste for liquor and lifelong habit of abstemiousness had hitherto kept Hood the soberest of men; he could not remember to have felt the warm solace of a draught taken for solace' sake since the days when Cheeseman had been wont to ...

— A Life's Morning • George Gissing

... outdoors men, especially in the West and South, where frequently they are eaten raw out of the can. It is not so much their flavor as their acid that is grateful to a stomach overtaxed with fat or canned meat and hot bread three times a day. If wanted only as an adjuvant to soups, stews, rice, macaroni, etc., the more concentrated ...

— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts

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