adjuvant

• accessorial
• accessory
• added
• additional
• another
• appurtenant
• assistant
• assisting
• auxiliary
• backup
• complementary
• contributory
• dispensable
• excess
• further
• helping
• makeshift
• nonessential
• peripheral
• secondary
• subordinate
• subservient
• subsidiary
• substitute
• superfluous
• supplemental
• supplementary
• supportive
• surplus
• tributary
• unessential

• all-important
• basic
• chief
• essential
• fundamental
• imperative
• indispensable
• integral
• main
• necessary
• needed
• needful
• primary
• prime
• principal
• required
• requisite
• vital

• noun
  1. Someone who helps or facilitates; an assistant, a helper.
  2. Something that enhances the effectiveness of a medical treatment; a supplementary treatment.
  3. An additive (as in a drug) that aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient.
  4. (pesticide science) An additive (often a separate product) that enhances the efficacy of pesticide products, but has little or no pesticidal activity itself.
  5. A substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen.
• adjective
  1. Helping; helpful; assisting.
  2. Designating a supplementary form of treatment, especially a cancer therapy administered after removal of a primary tumour.

• The vaccine contained an adjuvant to enhance the immune response.
• Researchers tested a new adjuvant in combination with the primary drug.
• An effective adjuvant can reduce the required dose of a vaccine.
• The study focused on the role of the adjuvant in cancer therapy.
• Without an adjuvant, the treatment would have been far less effective.

abetting

accessary

accessorial

accessory

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