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adjuvantic

adjuvantic is the alternative form of adjuvant.

Meaning of adjuvant

Adjective

adjuvant (comparative more adjuvant, superlative most adjuvant)

  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

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Questions about adjuvantic

What is adjuvantic the alternative form of?
Adjuvantic is the alternative form of adjuvant.

Words near adjuvantic in the dictionary

  1. adjuvant therapies
  2. adjuvant therapy
  3. adjuvantation
  4. adjuvantations
  5. adjuvanted
  6. adjuvantic
  7. adjuvanticity
  8. adjuvanting
  9. adjuvantly
  10. Adjuvanto
  11. adjuvants

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