dictionary help| immunoadjuvant --> adjuvant | medical dictionary |
1. <pharmacology> A substance that, when added to a medicine, speeds or improves its action which aids another, such as an auxiliary remedy
2. <immunology> A substance added to a vaccine to improve the immune response so that less vaccine is needed to produce a non-specific stimulator (for example, BCG vaccine) of the immune response.
Origin: L. Adjuvans = aiding
(18 Nov 1997)
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