adjuvant

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Providing assistance or help; assistive, facilitative, helpful.
2. sıfat Enhancing the immune response to an antigen; also, containing a substance having such an effect.
3. sıfat Of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary; specifically (oncology), of a cancer treatment: given after removal of a primary tumour.

   “Adjuvant chemotherapy, [Paul] Carbone conjectured, could be the surgeon's little helper. It would eradicate microscopic deposits of cancer left behind after surgery, thus extirpating any remnant reservoirs of malignancy in the body in early breast cancer— […]”

4. isim An additive (often a separate product) that enhances the efficacy of a pesticide, but has little or no pesticidal effect itself.
5. isim A substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen.

   “The well-known tropic action of immune serum as an adjuvant to phagocytosis suggested early in our studies that we might here be dealing with a similar phenomenon.”

6. isim A form of therapy or treatment which is additional or supplementary to another, or which enhances the effectiveness of another.
7. isim An additive which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient of a drug.