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Vinony

adjuvant

adjective

  1. administered therapeutically after the main therapy (usually surgery)
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈæd͡ʒʊv(ə)nt/ / /ˈæd͡ʒəv(ə)nt/

adj

Etymology: 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).

  1. Providing assistance or help; assistive, facilitative, helpful.
  2. Enhancing the immune response to an antigen; also, containing a substance having such an effect.
  3. Of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary; specifically (oncology), of a cancer treatment: given after removal of a primary tumour.

    “Adjuvant chemotherapy, [Paul] Carbone conjectured, could be the surgeon's little helper. It would eradicate microscopic deposits of cancer left behind after surgery, thus extirpating any remnant reservoirs of malignancy in the body in early breast cancer— […]”

noun

Etymology: 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).

  1. Someone or (more commonly) something that assists, facilitates, or helps; an aid, an assistant, a helper.
  2. Someone or (more commonly) something that assists, facilitates, or helps; an aid, an assistant, a helper.

    “The well-known tropic action of immune serum as an adjuvant to phagocytosis suggested early in our studies that we might here be dealing with a similar phenomenon.”

  3. Someone or (more commonly) something that assists, facilitates, or helps; an aid, an assistant, a helper.
  4. Someone or (more commonly) something that assists, facilitates, or helps; an aid, an assistant, a helper.