adjuvant

Meanings

Adjective

• Helping; helpful; assisting.
• Designating a supplementary form of treatment, especially a cancer therapy administered after removal of a primary tumour.

Noun

• Someone who helps or facilitates; an assistant, a helper.
• Something that enhances the effectiveness of a medical treatment; a supplementary treatment.
• An additive (as in a drug) that aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient.
• An additive (often a separate product) that enhances the efficacy of pesticide products, but has little or no pesticidal activity itself.
• A substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen.

Related

Similar words

• ancillary, complementary, contributory, extra, supporting
• accessory, assistant, attendant, satellite, secondary, subordinate, subservient, subsidiary.

Origin

• From Latin adiuvāns, present participle of adiuvāre, from ad + iuvāre.