adjuvant
Providing assistance or helpProviding assistance or help; assistive, facilitative, helpful.
» The adjuvant participates in the development of the event.
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3 senses(formal)Providing assistance or help; assistive, facilitative, helpful.
hilfreich, unterstützend
Enhancing the immune response to an antigen; also, containing a substance having such an effect.
Of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary; specifically (oncology), of a cancer treatment: given after removal of a primary tumour.
- enhancing the action of a medical treatment
- furnishing added support
Examples
2 sentencesThe adjuvant participates in the development of the event.
Vaccines against swine and avian flu can be made more effective by the addition of a helper serum known as an adjuvant.
Translations
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Origin
Learned borrowing from Latin adiuvant-, adjuvant- + English -ant (suffix forming adjectiveLearned 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”)).
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Forms
more adjuvant, most adjuvant| Comparative | more adjuvant Lesson |
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| Superlative | most adjuvant Lesson |
regular
Synonyms
10 synonyms- furnishing added support:accessoryadjunctancillaryappurtenantauxiliary
Word family
11 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form