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ADJUVANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does adjuvant mean?
• ADJUVANT (noun)
The noun ADJUVANT has 1 sense:
1. an additive that enhances the effectiveness of medical treatment
Familiarity information: ADJUVANT used as a noun is very rare.
• ADJUVANT (adjective)
The adjective ADJUVANT has 2 senses:
1. furnishing added support
2. enhancing the action of a medical treatment
Familiarity information: ADJUVANT used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An additive that enhances the effectiveness of medical treatment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("adjuvant" is a kind of...):
additive (something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine)
Derivation:
adjuvant (enhancing the action of a medical treatment)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Furnishing added support
Synonyms:
accessory; adjunct; adjuvant; ancillary; appurtenant; auxiliary
Context example:
The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other
Similar:
supportive (furnishing support or assistance)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Enhancing the action of a medical treatment
Context example:
the adjuvant action of certain bacteria
Similar:
helpful (providing assistance or serving a useful function)
Domain category:
materia medica; pharmacological medicine; pharmacology (the science or study of drugs: their preparation and properties and uses and effects)
Derivation:
adjuvant (an additive that enhances the effectiveness of medical treatment)
Context examples
The hydrochloride salt form of methoxyamine, an alkoxyamine with potential chemotherapeutic adjuvant activity.
(Methoxyamine hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)
As a vaccine adjuvant, monophosphoryl lipid A (MPLA) stimulates both cellular and humoral responses to the vaccine antigen.
(Monophosphoryl Lipid A, NCI Thesaurus)
A proprietary adjuvant, applicable for water-in-oil (W/O; 30/70 v/v) vaccine emulsion, with potential immunoadjuvant activity.
(Montanide ISA 720, NCI Thesaurus)
Also called IFA and incomplete Freund's adjuvant.
(Montanide ISA-51, NCI Dictionary)
An orally bioavailable small molecule inhibitor with potential adjuvant activity.
(Methoxyamine, NCI Thesaurus)
Melanoma theraccine typically consists of lysed melanoma cells obtained from several melanoma cell lines combined with an adjuvant (such as DETOX or RIBI).
(Melanoma Theraccine, NCI Thesaurus)
The proprietary immunostimulating adjuvant in this agent is composed of a specific combination of immunostimulating compounds selected to increase the anti-tumor immune response to MAGE-A3.
(Astuprotimut-R, NCI Thesaurus)
A regimen consisting of doxorubicin, followed by cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, fluorouracil (CMF), used in the adjuvant setting for the treatment of breast cancer.
(A-CMF Regimen, NCI Thesaurus)
In cancer patients it increases leukocytosis, blood active T rosettes, T4/T8 ratio, and is used as an adjuvant to chemotherapy in the treatment of melanoma and myeloma.
(Azimexon, NCI Thesaurus)
The mRNA used in this vaccine is modified and formulated to have enhanced translational potency and adjuvant activities.
(mRNA-Derived Prostate Cancer Vaccine CV9103, NCI Thesaurus)
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