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Adjunct vs. Adjuvant

Difference Between Adjunct and Adjuvant

Adjunct

Something attached to another in a dependent or subordinate position.
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Adjuvant

In pharmacology, an adjuvant is a drug or other substance, or a combination of substances, that is used to increase the efficacy or potency of certain drugs.
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Adjunct

A person associated with another in a subordinate or auxiliary capacity.
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Adjuvant

A treatment that enhances an existing medical regimen, as a pharmacological agent added to a drug to increase or aid its effect.
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Adjunct

(Grammar) A clause or phrase added to a sentence that, while not essential to the sentence's structure, amplifies its meaning, such as for several hours in We waited for several hours.
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Adjuvant

An immunological agent that increases the antigenic response.
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Adjunct

(Logic) A nonessential attribute of a thing.
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Adjuvant

Contributing to or enhancing an existing medical regimen
adjuvant chemotherapy.
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Adjunct

Added or connected in a subordinate or auxiliary capacity
an adjunct clause.
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Adjuvant

or ad·ju·vant·ed (ăjə-vən-tĭd) Containing an adjuvant
an adjuvant vaccine.
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Adjunct

Attached to a faculty or staff in a temporary or auxiliary capacity
an adjunct professor of history.
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Adjuvant

Helping; helpful; assisting. from 16th c.
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Adjunct

An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
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Adjuvant

(medicine) Designating a supplementary form of treatment, especially a cancer therapy administered after removal of a primary tumour. from 19th c.
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Adjunct

A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
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Adjuvant

Someone who helps or facilitates; an assistant, a helper. from 16th c.
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Adjunct

(brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
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Adjuvant

(medicine) Something that enhances the effectiveness of a medical treatment; a supplementary treatment. from 18th c.
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Adjunct

A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
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Adjuvant

(pharmacology) An additive (as in a drug) that aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient. from 19th c.
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Adjunct

(music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
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Adjuvant

(agriculture) An additive (often a separate product) that enhances the efficacy of pesticide products, but has little or no pesticidal activity itself. from mid 20th c.
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Adjunct

(grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that modifies its meaning.
noun adjunct
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Adjuvant

(immunology) A substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen. from 20th c.
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Adjunct

A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
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Adjuvant

A substance added to an immunogenic agent to enhance the production of antibodies.
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Adjunct

(rhetoric) Symploce.
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Adjuvant

A substance added to a formulation of a drug which enhances the effect of the active ingredient.
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Adjunct

(category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
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Adjuvant

An assistant.
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Adjunct

Connected in a subordinate function.
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Adjuvant

An ingredient, in a prescription, which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient.
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Adjunct

Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
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Adjuvant

Helping; helpful; assisting.
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Adjunct

Conjoined; attending; consequent.
Though that my death were adjunct to my act.
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Adjuvant

an additive that enhances the effectiveness of medical treatment
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Adjunct

Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it.
Learning is but an adjunct to our self.
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Adjuvant

relating to something that is added but is not essential;
an ancillary pump
an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism
The mind and emotions are auxilliary to each other
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Adjunct

A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate.
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Adjuvant

enhancing the action of a medical treatment;
the adjuvant action of certain bacteria
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Adjunct

A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "History."
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Adjunct

A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.
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Adjunct

something added to another thing but not an essential part of it
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Adjunct

a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another
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Adjunct

a construction that is part of a sentence but not essential to its meaning and can be omitted without making the sentence ungrammatical
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Adjunct

relating to something that is added but is not essential;
an ancillary pump
an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism
The mind and emotions are auxilliary to each other
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Adjunct

of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another
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