adjuvant

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
adjuvant /ˈadʒʊv(ə)nt/ Medicine

▶adjective (of therapy) applied after initial treatment for cancer to suppress secondary tumour formation. ▶noun a substance which enhances the body's immune response to an antigen.

– origin C16: from L. adjuvant-, adjuvare, from ad- ‘towards’ + juvare ‘to help’.

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