adjuvant

adjective

1. serving to help or assist; auxiliary.
2. Medicine/Medical. utilizing drugs, radiation therapy, or other means of supplemental treatment following cancer surgery.

noun

3. a person or thing that aids or helps.
4. anything that aids in removing or preventing a disease, especially a substance added to a prescription to aid the effect of the main ingredient.
5. Immunology. a substance admixed with an immunogen in order to elicit a more marked immune response.

adjective

1. aiding or assisting

noun

2. something that aids or assists; auxiliary
3. med a drug or other substance that enhances the activity of another
4. immunol a substance that enhances the immune response stimulated by an antigen when injected with the antigen

n.

1. A pharmacological agent added to a drug, predictably affecting the action of the drug’s active ingredient.
2. An immunological vehicle for enhancing antigenicity, such as a water-in-oil emulsion in which antigen solution is emulsified in mineral oil.immunoadjuvant