Adjunct vs. Adjuvant — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Adjunct and Adjuvant
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Adjunct
Something attached to another in a dependent or subordinate position.
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.
Adjunct
A person associated with another in a subordinate or auxiliary capacity.
Adjuvant
A treatment that enhances an existing medical regimen, as a pharmacological agent added to a drug to increase or aid its effect.
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.
Adjunct
(Logic) A nonessential attribute of a thing.
Adjuvant
Contributing to or enhancing an existing medical regimen
Adjuvant chemotherapy.
Adjunct
Added or connected in a subordinate or auxiliary capacity
An adjunct clause.
Adjuvant
Or ad·ju·vant·ed (ăjə-vən-tĭd) Containing an adjuvant
An adjuvant vaccine.
Adjunct
Attached to a faculty or staff in a temporary or auxiliary capacity
An adjunct professor of history.
Adjuvant
Helping; helpful; assisting. from 16th c.
Adjunct
An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
Adjuvant
(medicine) Designating a supplementary form of treatment, especially a cancer therapy administered after removal of a primary tumour. from 19th c.
Adjunct
A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
Adjuvant
Someone who helps or facilitates; an assistant, a helper. from 16th c.
Adjunct
(brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
Adjuvant
(medicine) Something that enhances the effectiveness of a medical treatment; a supplementary treatment. from 18th c.
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.
Adjuvant
(pharmacology) An additive (as in a drug) that aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient. from 19th c.
Adjunct
(music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
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.
Adjunct
(grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that modifies its meaning.
Noun adjunct
Adjuvant
(immunology) A substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen. from 20th c.
Adjunct
A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
Adjuvant
A substance added to an immunogenic agent to enhance the production of antibodies.
Adjunct
(rhetoric) Symploce.
Adjuvant
A substance added to a formulation of a drug which enhances the effect of the active ingredient.
Adjunct
(category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
Adjuvant
An assistant.
Adjunct
Connected in a subordinate function.
Adjuvant
An ingredient, in a prescription, which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient.
Adjunct
Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
Adjuvant
Helping; helpful; assisting.
Adjunct
Conjoined; attending; consequent.
Though that my death were adjunct to my act.
Adjuvant
An additive that enhances the effectiveness of medical treatment
Adjunct
Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it.
Learning is but an adjunct to our self.
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
Adjunct
A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate.
Adjuvant
Enhancing the action of a medical treatment;
The adjuvant action of certain bacteria
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."
Adjunct
A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.
Adjunct
Something added to another thing but not an essential part of it
Adjunct
A person who is an assistant or subordinate to another
Adjunct
A construction that is part of a sentence but not essential to its meaning and can be omitted without making the sentence ungrammatical
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
Adjunct
Of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another
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