Dictionary

adjuvant en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈæd͡ʒʊv(ə)nt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈæd͡ʒəv(ə)nt/ (General-American)
• (General-American) audio
• 'ăj-ə-vənt (General-American)

Etymology

Learned 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”)). Adjective sense 3 (“of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary”) and noun sense 1.4 (“additive which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient of a drug”) are possibly derived from French adjuvant (adjective, noun).

Meanings

1. (formal) Providing assistance or help; assistive, facilitative, helpful.
2. Enhancing the immune response to an antigen; also, containing a substance having such an effect.
3. 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— […] 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, “Halsted’s Ashes”, in The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 219:

Forms

Deriveds

preadjuvant · autoadjuvant · adjuvance · adjuvantly · adjuvanticity · adjuvancy · adjuvantation

Relateds

aid · aidance · aide · adjutant · aidant

Synonyms

helping · supporting · auxiliary · assisting · complementary · contributory

Translations (13)

fi auttavainen (providing assistance or help — see also helpful) · es adyuvante (providing assistance or help — see also helpful) · fi avustava (providing assistance or help — see also helpful) · fi adjuvanttinen (enhancing the immune response to an antigen; containing a substance having such an effect) · fi adjuvanttinen (of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary; of a cancer treatment: given after removal of a primary tumour) · pt adjuvante (of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary; of a cancer treatment: given after removal of a primary tumour) · es adyuvante (of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary; of a cancer treatment: given after removal of a primary tumour) · it coadiuvante (of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary; of a cancer treatment: given after removal of a primary tumour) · fi tuki- (providing assistance or help — see also helpful) · de hilfreich (providing assistance or help — see also helpful) · de unterstützend (providing assistance or help — see also helpful) · fr adjuvant (of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary; of a cancer treatment: given after removal of a primary tumour) · it adiuvante (of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary; of a cancer treatment: given after removal of a primary tumour)

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adjuvant en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈæd͡ʒʊv(ə)nt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈæd͡ʒəv(ə)nt/ (General-American)
• (General-American) audio
• 'ăj-ə-vənt (General-American)

Etymology

Learned 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”)). Adjective sense 3 (“of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary”) and noun sense 1.4 (“additive which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient of a drug”) are possibly derived from French adjuvant (adjective, noun).

Meanings

1. (formal) Someone or (more commonly) something that assists, facilitates, or helps; an aid, an assistant, a helper. ▸ An additive (often a separate product) that enhances the efficacy of a pesticide, but has little or no pesticidal effect itself.
2. (formal) Someone or (more commonly) something that assists, facilitates, or helps; an aid, an assistant, a helper. ▸ 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. 1914 November, Frederick P. Gay, Edith J[ane] Claypole, “Specific Hyperleukocytosis: Studies in Typhoid Immunization”, in Archives of Internal Medicine, volume XIV, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 662–670:
3. (formal) Someone or (more commonly) something that assists, facilitates, or helps; an aid, an assistant, a helper. ▸ A form of therapy or treatment which is additional or supplementary to another, or which enhances the effectiveness of another.
4. (archaic, formal) Someone or (more commonly) something that assists, facilitates, or helps; an aid, an assistant, a helper. ▸ An additive which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient of a drug.

Forms

Deriveds

Freund's adjuvant · neoadjuvant · adjuvanted · immunoadjuvant · chemoadjuvant · adjuvant therapy · coadjuvant · postneoadjuvant

Synonyms

attendant · attendant · attendant · accessory · accessory · accessory · attendant · accessory

Translations (15)

cs adjuvans (additive which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient of a drug) · fi apumies (someone or something that assists, facilitates, or helps) · fi assistentti (someone or something that assists, facilitates, or helps) · fi adjuvantti (substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen) · pl adiuwant (additive that enhances the efficacy of a pesticide, but has little or no pesticidal effect itself) · fi adjutantti (someone or something that assists, facilitates, or helps) · fi adjuvantti (additive which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient of a drug) · cy adgynorthwyydd (substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen) · cs adjuvans (substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen) · fi avustaja (someone or something that assists, facilitates, or helps) · fi apuri (someone or something that assists, facilitates, or helps) · cy adgynorthwyydd (additive which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient of a drug) · sv adjuvant (additive that enhances the efficacy of a pesticide, but has little or no pesticidal effect itself) · fi adjuvantti (form of therapy or treatment which is additional or supplementary to another, or which enhances the effectiveness of another) · fi liitännäisaine (additive that enhances the efficacy of a pesticide, but has little or no pesticidal effect itself)

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