adjuvant

adjuvant
/aj"euh veuhnt/, adj.
1. serving to help or assist; auxiliary.
2. Med. utilizing drugs, radiation therapy, or other means of supplemental treatment following cancer surgery.
n.
3. a person or thing that aids or helps.
4. anything that aids in removing or preventing a disease, esp. a substance added to a prescription to aid the effect of the main ingredient.
5. Immunol. a substance admixed with an immunogen in order to elicit a more marked immune response.
[1600-10; < L adjuvant- (s. of adjuvans, prp. of adjuvare), equiv. to ad- AD- + juv- (s. of juvare to help) + -ant- -ANT]

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      substance that enhances the effect of a particular medical treatment. Administration of one drug may enhance the effect of another. In anesthesia (anesthetic), for example, sedative drugs are customarily given before an operation to reduce the quantity of anesthetic drug needed. In immunology an adjuvant is a substance that increases the body's reaction to a foreign substance. The reaction to diphtheria toxoid—modified form of the toxin, or poisonous substance, produced by the organism that causes diphtheria—is increased, for example, if the toxoid is adsorbed (attached) to particles of aluminum hydroxide or aluminum phosphate.

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