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adjuvants

adjuvants is the plural of adjuvant.

Meaning of adjuvant

Noun

adjuvant (plural adjuvants)

  1. (formal) An additive (often a separate product) that enhances the efficacy of a pesticide, but has little or no pesticidal effect itself.
    Synonyms:
    accessory, attendant
  2. (formal) 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...
    Synonyms:
    accessory, attendant
  3. (formal) A form of therapy or treatment which is additional or supplementary to another, or which enhances the effectiveness of another.
    Synonyms:
    accessory, attendant
  4. (archaic, formal) An additive which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient of a drug.
    Synonyms:
    accessory, attendant

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Questions about adjuvants

What is adjuvants the plural of?
Adjuvants is the plural of adjuvant.

Words near adjuvants in the dictionary

  1. adjuvantic
  2. adjuvanticity
  3. adjuvanting
  4. adjuvantly
  5. Adjuvanto
  6. adjuvants
  7. adjuvate
  8. adjuvated
  9. adjuvates
  10. adjuvating
  11. adjuvation

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