adjuvant Definition
ad·ju·vant (aj′ə vənt)
noun
- a person or thing that helps
- a substance added to a drug to aid its action, specif. in increasing immune response
adjuvant Usage Examples
Converse of object
- contain: The infected fleas then fed on 15 mice that had been inoculated with the experimental vaccine containing an adjuvant ( an immune booster ).
- include: How do I include an adjuvant on the Official List?
- use: Some of the specific cancer vaccines use adjuvants to increase the strength of the immune response.
- call: Stimuli that activate the immune system and lead to the induction of strong immune responses are called adjuvants.
Adjective modifier
- new: This may allow us in the future to design and engineer new mucosal adjuvants that could have universal application.
- mucosal: This may allow us in the future to design and engineer new mucosal adjuvants that could have universal application.
- novel: Of particular interest is the elucidation of the immune function and mode of synergy of current and novel adjuvants.
Modifies a noun
- chemotherapy: The second part of the trial compared adjuvant chemotherapy with no adjuvant therapy.
- chemoradiotherapy: After resection patients were randomized to adjuvant chemoradiotherapy of chemotherapy.
- tamoxifen: Randomized trial of two versus five years of adjuvant tamoxifen for post-menopausal early stage breast cancer.
- radiotherapy: There is no evidence that adjuvant radiotherapy improves survival.
- therapy: For 25 patients who completed planned adjuvant therapy, the 3-year survival rate was 73 % .
- treatment: Herceptin will move into the adjuvant treatment setting for breast cancer, with forecast sales of $ 1.2 billion by 2014.
Modifying Another Word
prior: Most with prior adjuvant chemotherapy, radiotherapy, hormonal therapy.
Noun used with modifier
- vaccine: Chicken interferon gamma has been proposed as a vaccine adjuvant and growth promoter for chickens [ 5 ] .
- oil: The vaccine is suspended in the aqueous phase of an oil adjuvant emulsion.
- hydroxide: The protein conjugate is adsorbed onto aluminum hydroxide gel adjuvant.
- gel: The protein conjugate is adsorbed onto aluminum hydroxide gel adjuvant.
- aluminum: The protein conjugate is adsorbed onto aluminum hydroxide gel adjuvant.
Preposition: in
vaccine: It is thought that the formation of this cancer is possibly being stimulated by the adjuvant in the vaccine.
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