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Adjuvant

noun

An additive that enhances the effectiveness of medical treatment.

adjective

Furnishing added support. Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary. "An adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism" , "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other"

Enhancing the action of a medical treatment.

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"Adjuvant" Quotes from Famous Books

... support. Biology teaches us that the male sex was invented for this purpose; doubtless one should say for this "increasing purpose," since it is scarcely more than foreshadowed at first in the history of the male sex. The study of life has clearly proved that the male sex is secondary and adjuvant, and that its essentially auxiliary functions for the race have been increasing from the beginning until we find them in perfection wherever two parents join in common consecration and devotion to their supreme task, upon which all else depends and without ...

— Woman and Womanhood - A Search for Principles • C. W. Saleeby

... none took part in my life who did not contribute something towards my well-being. It must, of course, be understood that I make no distinction between mental and material help; and in my case the one has ever been adjuvant to the other. "Pooh, pooh!" again exclaims the reader; "I for one will not believe that chance has only sent across your way the people who were required to assist you." Chance! dear reader, is there such a thing as chance? Do you ...

— Confessions of a Young Man • George Moore

... then continued, in an attempt at a bantering manner, "that you refer to your luxuries as preliminary to—ah— matrimony, which is said to be the only gainful occupation that my sex leaves almost exclusively to yours, and in which fine clothing is undoubtedly an adjuvant. But observation leads me to think that it is a business less profitable ...

— The Bacillus of Beauty - A Romance of To-day • Harriet Stark

... than animals, and we love through the imagination, at least the imagination stimulates the senses, acting as a sort of adjuvant. The barmaid falls in love with No. 1 because he wipes a glass better than No. 2, and Mary fell in love with Coppee on account of his sonnet "Le Lys," and she grew indifferent when he wrote poems like "La Nourrice" or "Le petit epicier de Montrouge qui cassait le sucre avec melancolie." ...

— Memoirs of My Dead Life • George Moore

... outdoors men, especially in the West and South, where frequently they are eaten raw out of the can. It is not so much their flavor as their acid that is grateful to a stomach overtaxed with fat or canned meat and hot bread three times a day. If wanted only as an adjuvant to soups, stews, rice, macaroni, etc., the more concentrated ...

— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts