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Definitions: Adjuvant |
AdjuvantAdjective1. Relating to something that is added but is not essential; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxilliary to each other". 2. (pharmacology) enhancing the action of a medical treatment; "the adjuvant action of certain bacteria". Noun1. An additive that enhances the effectiveness of medical treatment. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Food & Agriculture | A)a substance, solid or liquid, that, when added to a pesticide, increases its effectiveness, e. g. a solvent, diluent, carrier, emulsifier, spreader, or sticker; b)also any pesticide added to another. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Any substance added to herbicides, such as wetting or spreading agents, which modify their physical characteristics and increase their killing power. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Health | A substance which aids another, such as an auxiliary remedy; in immunology, nonspecific stimulator (e.g., BCG vaccine) of the immune response. (references) |
Medicine | A substance that is not antigenic but, when mixed with an antigen, enhances antibody production. Adjuvants are used therapeutically since they help to produce antibody against small amounts of antigen and to prolong the period of antibody production. Adjuvants work by inducing an inflammatory response that leads to a local influx of antibody-forming cells. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: AdjuvantSynonyms: accessory (adj), adjunct (adj), ancillary (adj), appurtenant (adj), auxiliary (adj), subsidiary (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Aid | Adjective: aiding; Verb: auxiliary, adjuvant, helpful; coadjuvant; subservient, ministrant, ancillary, accessory, subsidiary. |
Auxiliary | Noun: auxiliary; recruit; assistant; adjuvant, adjutant; ayudante, coaid; adjunct; help, helper, help mate, helping hand; midwife; colleague, partner, mate, confrere, cooperator; coadjutor, coadjutrix; collaborator. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Adjuvant |
| English words defined with "adjuvant": accessory, adjunct, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary ♦ Coadjuvant ♦ subsidiary. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "adjuvant": adjuvant therapy, Adjuvants, Immunologic, Alcuronium, Arthritis, Adjuvant ♦ Cell Wall Skeleton, Chemotherapy, Adjuvant ♦ filming agent, Flunarizine, Freund's Adjuvant ♦ immune adjuvant, immunological adjuvant, incomplete Freund's adjuvant, ISCOMs ♦ Oxazolone ♦ Radiotherapy, Adjuvant ♦ vaccine adjuvant. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Adjuvant" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (adjuvant), Romanian (adjuvant). |
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Health | This is called adjuvant chemotherapy. (references) | |
All patients with grade 3 tumors require adjuvant therapy. (references) | ||
Patients with clear cell carcinoma require adjuvant therapy. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Adjuvant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 78.38% of the time. "Adjuvant" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 78.38% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (singular) | 18.92% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 37 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "adjuvant": adjuvant therapy ♦ Freund's Adjuvant ♦ immune adjuvant ♦ immunological adjuvant ♦ incomplete Freund's adjuvant ♦ vaccine adjuvant. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "adjuvant": adjuvant-type. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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adjuvant | 29 |
adjuvant therapy | 17 |
adjuvant freund | 5 |
adjuvant chemotherapy | 4 |
adjuvant vaccine | 4 |
adjuvant breast cancer therapy | 3 |
adjuvant carton | 2 |
adjuvant papier | 2 |
adjuvant breast cancer treatment | 2 |
adjuvant complete freunds | 2 |
adjuvant carton papier | 2 |
adjuvant spray | 2 |
adjuvant animation vaccines | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "adjuvant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ndihmës (accessary, accessory, acolyte, adjunct, adjutant, aid, aide, ancillary, assistant, auxiliary, candle holder, coadjutant, coadjutor, first mate, gillie, help, helper, henchman, mate, paramedical, second, secondary, servo, sidekick, subsidiary, tutor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | помощник (acolyte, adjunct, affiliate, aid, aide, ally, assistant, auxiliary, candle holder, coadjutor, confederate, help, helper, lieutenant, mate, pander, second, secondary, subsidiary), помощен (adjunct, ancillary, auxiliary, helping, pilot, pony, relief, servo-, subservient, subsidiary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 辅药. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | adjuvans. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | adjuvans. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | adjuvantti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | adjuvant (additive, admixture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Adjuvans. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βοηθητική ουσία, προσθετικόν, προσθετικαί ουσίαι, ενισχυτικό (booster, girder, stiffener), επίκουρον. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | segítséget nyújtó, segítõ (assistant, helper), segéd- (assistant, aux, auxiliary, suffragan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | adiuvante. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adjuvantay adjuvante (accessorial). (various references) auxiliar (accidental, additional, ancillary, assistant, auxiliary, subsidiary, supplementary), ajutor (abettor, accommodation, accomplice, adjoint, adjunct, adjutancy, adjutant, adminicle, aid, ancillary, assistance, assistant, auxiliary, backer, backing, collaboration, contribution, co-operation, deputy, easement, fire, friend, furtherance, help, helper, helpfulness, helping, mate, means, ministrant, office, redress, refuge, relief, remedy, rescue, salvation, saver, second, service, sos, staff, stand by, stead, succor, succour, support, supporter, sustainer, upholder), ajutãtor (accessary, additional, assistant, auxiliary, helpful, helping, pony, secondary, subordinate, supplementary), adjuvant. (various references) вспомогательный (accessorial, ancillary, auxiliary, backed-up, intermediate, pilot, pony, relief, service, servo, subsidiary, supplementary), помощник (acolyte, adjutant, aid, aide, aider, assistant, assistant secretaries, auxiliary, candle holder, farm hand, farmhand, help, helper, helpmate, mate, second, troubleshooter). (various references) pomoćnik (adjunct, aid, aide, associate, auxiliary, call-boy, coadjutor, contributor, deputy, famulus, help, helper, helpmate, helpmeet, mate, potman, subsidiary), koristan (conducive, helpful, profitable, useful, valuable, worthy), koji pomaže (helping), katalizator (catalyst, catalyzer). (various references) auxiliar (aid, ancillary, assistant, auxiliary, help, helper, subsidiary, tender), adyuvante, adj - adyuvante; coadyuvante, aditivos (additives), coadyuvante (intervener), útil (good, helpful, meaningful, profitable, purposeful, purposive, rewarding, serviceable, useful). (various references) aktiv tillsats, adjuvans. (various references) що допомага", корисний (advantageous, available, beneficial, conducive, effective, gainful, helpful, of avail, practicable, profitable, rewarding, serviceable, useful, valuable, wholesome), помічник (acolyte, adjunct, adjutant, aid, ally, assistant, auxiliary, candle holder, contributor, help, helper, helpmate, second, secondary, seconder, subsidiary, tender), допоміжний засіб (assistant), допоміжний (accessary, accessorial, accessory, auxiliary, collateral, emergency, intermediate, ministerial, pilot, secondary, subsidiary, utility). (various references) vật giúp ích, phụ tá (adjunct), người phụ tá, người giúp đỡ (assistant, auxiliary, backer, ministrant), giúp ích, giúp đỡ (assistant, ministrant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "adjuvant": adjuvants. (additional references) | |
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"Adjuvant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adiuva, adjuant, adjuvandum. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-j-n-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: avaunt. | |
-3 letters: avant, daunt, jaunt, junta, vanda, vaunt. | |
-4 letters: anta, aunt, data, daut, dunt, java, nada, tuna, vatu. | |
-5 letters: ana, and, ant, ava, dun, jun, jut, nut, tad, taj, tan, tau, tav, tun, uta, van, vat, vau. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-j-n-t-u-v" | |
+1 letter: adjuvants. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 64 6A 75 76 61 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.. .--- ..- ...- .- -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100100 01101010 01110101 01110110 01100001 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d j u v a n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0064 006A 0075 0076 0061 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3570768788678086 |
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