How do you use Adjuvant in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like accessory or adjunct, plus the exact meaning.
Adjuvant meaning
- Providing assistance or help; assistive, facilitative, helpful.
- Enhancing the immune response to an antigen; also, containing a substance having such an effect.
- Of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary; specifically (oncology), of a cancer treatment: given after removal of a primary tumour.
Synonyms of Adjuvant
Using Adjuvant
- The main meaning on this page is: Providing assistance or help; assistive, facilitative, helpful. | Enhancing the immune response to an antigen; also, containing a substance having such an effect. | Of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary; specifically (oncology), of a cancer treatment: given after removal of a primary tumour.
- Useful related words include: accessory, adjunct, ancillary, appurtenant.
- In the example corpus, adjuvant often appears in combinations such as: adjuvant chemotherapy, the adjuvant, adjuvant therapy.
Context around Adjuvant
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Adjuvant
- In this selection, "adjuvant" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, undergoing, neoadjuvant, appropriate, chemotherapy, technology and therapy stand out and add context to how "adjuvant" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2 neoadjuvant adjuvant solid tumor and adjuvant chemotherapy refers. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "adjuvant" sits close to words such as abattoirs, abike and ablative, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with adjuvant
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It has been promoted as an adjuvant for the treatment of cocaine dependence. (13 words)
Perry, p. 42 * Adjuvant chemotherapy is given after a local treatment (radiotherapy or surgery). (14 words)
GSK patented the adjuvant and took control of the supply of the ingredients in it. (15 words)
The easiest way to make a vaccine is to inactivate the pathogen or use pieces of it, and mix them with an adjuvant, which tells the immune system that the pathogen is dangerous and worth responding to. (37 words)
This was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in January 2005 for the treatment of breast cancer after failure of combination chemotherapy for metastatic disease or relapse within six months of adjuvant chemotherapy. (36 words)
If stage II or III disease is confirmed, adjuvant chemotherapy improves survival by 5% at five years. citation citation The combination of vinorelbine and cisplatin is more effective than older regimens. (31 words)
What are the market opportunities and threats faced by the vendors in the China Pesticide Adjuvant market? (17 words)
Example sentences (20)
GSK patented the adjuvant and took control of the supply of the ingredients in it.
It’s not been well characterized in this context, as you know, it’s been well characterized, in the adjuvant setting identifying patients at high risk of disease recurrence.
And we do have a very important effort that's being led by Elaine to find other partners and get additional value out of the adjuvant.
Instead, it is likely she is undergoing 'adjuvant' chemotherapy - from the Latin adjuvare ('to help', or 'aid' future health).
Investors also need to consider regulatory risks regarding the potential approvals for the combined vaccines or the use of Novavax's adjuvant technology in Sanofi's products.
On Dec. 21, IO Biotech said first patient was dosed in Phase 2 neoadjuvant/adjuvant solid tumor basket trial.
Breuer said vaccines developed later, and adjuvant technology, may have longer or better efficacy, especially in the elderly.
The easiest way to make a vaccine is to inactivate the pathogen or use pieces of it, and mix them with an adjuvant, which tells the immune system that the pathogen is dangerous and worth responding to.
He published a paper in the Annals of Surgery documenting the improved survival associated with excellent tumor surgical technique combined with appropriate adjuvant treatment.
What are the market opportunities and threats faced by the vendors in the China Pesticide Adjuvant market?
Adjuvant chemotherapy refers to the use of chemotherapy after apparently curative surgery to improve the outcome.
If stage II or III disease is confirmed, adjuvant chemotherapy improves survival by 5% at five years. citation citation The combination of vinorelbine and cisplatin is more effective than older regimens.
It has been promoted as an adjuvant for the treatment of cocaine dependence.
It may also be used as part of adjuvant therapy, to prevent tumor recurrence after surgery to remove a primary malignant tumor (for example, early stages of breast cancer).
Perry, p. 42 * Adjuvant chemotherapy is given after a local treatment (radiotherapy or surgery).
Radiation may be prescribed by a radiation oncologist with intent to cure ("curative") or for adjuvant therapy.
These micrometastases can be treated with adjuvant chemotherapy and can reduce relapse rates caused by these disseminated cells. citation * Maintenance chemotherapy is a repeated low-dose treatment to prolong remission.
The use of adjuvant analgesics is an important and growing part of the pain-control field and new discoveries are made practically every year.
This was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in January 2005 for the treatment of breast cancer after failure of combination chemotherapy for metastatic disease or relapse within six months of adjuvant chemotherapy.
Vitamin E with adjuvant Evening Primrose Oil may reduce breast pain. citation The use of vitamin E in the treatment of some cancers is beneficial.
Common combinations with adjuvant
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- adjuvant chemotherapy 5×
- the adjuvant 3×
- adjuvant therapy 3×
- of adjuvant 3×
- adjuvant for 2×
- adjuvant technology 2×
- an adjuvant 2×
- with adjuvant 2×