adjuvant

From Latin adiuvāns, present participle of adiuvāre (“to help”), from ad (“to”) + iuvāre (“to help”).

• enPR: 'ăj-ə-vənt, IPA^(key): /ˈæd͡ʒ.ə.vənt/

adjuvant

1. Helping; helpful; assisting. [from 16th c.]
2. (medicine) Designating a supplementary form of treatment, especially a cancer therapy administered after removal of a primary tumour. [from 19th c.]
   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 219:

     Adjuvant chemotherapy, Carbone conjectured, could be the surgeon's little helper.

• ancillary, complementary, contributory, extra, supporting

adjuvant (plural adjuvants)

1. Someone who helps or facilitates; an assistant, a helper. [from 16th c.]
2. (medicine) Something that enhances the effectiveness of a medical treatment; a supplementary treatment. [from 18th c.]
3. (pharmacology) An additive (as in a drug) that aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient. [from 19th c.]
4. (agriculture) An additive (often a separate product) that enhances the efficacy of pesticide products, but has little or no pesticidal activity itself. [from mid 20th c.]
5. (immunology) A substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen. [from 20th c.]
   • Gay, Frederick P., Claypole, Edit J. (1914) “Specific Hyperleukocytosis: Studies In Typhoid Immunization”, in Archives of Internal Medicine‎, volume XIV, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, retrieved 16 April 2020, pages 662–670

     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.

• accessory, assistant, attendant, satellite, secondary, subordinate, subservient, subsidiary.

• adjutant
• aid
• aidance
• aidant
• aide

• “adjuvant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “adjuvant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “adjuvant”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• IPA^(key): /a.dʒy.vɑ̃/

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adjuvant (feminine adjuvante, masculine plural adjuvants, feminine plural adjuvantes)

1. adjuvant

adjuvant m (plural adjuvants)

1. adjuvant

• “adjuvant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

adjuvant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of adjuvō

Borrowed from French adjuvant or German Adjuvant.

adjuvant m or n (feminine singular adjuvantă, masculine plural adjuvanți, feminine and neuter plural adjuvante)

1. adjuvant

adjuvant m (plural adjuvanți)

1. adjuvant