- serving to help or assist; auxiliary: You'll be serving in an adjuvant capacity, on call if we need you.
- utilizing drugs, radiation therapy, or other means of supplemental treatment following cancer surgery or other primary cancer treatment: The cancer was caught at such an early stage that adjuvant measures were determined to be unnecessary.
- a person or thing that aids or helps: a team of adjuvants.
- anything that aids in the treatment of disease, management of pain, etc., especially a substance added to a medication to aid the effect of the main ingredient:For some in acute pain, caffeine is an effective analgesic adjuvant.
- a substance admixed with an immunogen in order to elicit a more marked immune response: Aluminum salts have been used as adjuvants in vaccines for many decades.
- aiding or assisting
- something that aids or assists; auxiliary
- a drug or other substance that enhances the activity of another
- a substance that enhances the immune response stimulated by an antigen when injected with the antigen
