| Freund's incomplete adjuvant | Water-in-oil emulsion of antigen, without mycobacteria. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| adjuvant | 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) |
| adjuvant analgesic | <pharmacology> A drug that is not a primary analgesic but that research has shown to have independent or additive analgesic properties. (16 Dec 1997) |
| adjuvant chemotherapy | <oncology, pharmacology> Chemotherapy treatment that is given as an add-on to their primary cancer treatment, as in surgery or radiation therapy. (16 Dec 1997) |
| adjuvant therapy | <oncology, pharmacology> Treatment that is added to increase the effectiveness of a primary treatment. In cancer, adjuvant treatment usually refers to chemotherapy, hormonal therapy or radiation therapy after surgery to increase the likelihood of killing all cancer cells. (14 May 1997) |
| adjuvant vaccine | A vaccine that contains an adjuvant; most often the antigen (immunogen) is included in a water-in-oil emulsion (Freund incomplete type adjuvant), or is adsorbed onto an inorganic gel (alum, aluminum hydroxide or phosphate). (05 Mar 2000) |
| arthritis, adjuvant | An arthritis experimentally induced in animals with freund's adjuvant. (12 Dec 1998) |
| radiotherapy, adjuvant | Radiotherapy given to augment some other form of treatment such as surgery or chemotherapy. Adjuvant radiotherapy is commonly used in the therapy of cancer and can be administered before or after the primary treatment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| chemotherapy, adjuvant | Drug therapy given to augment or stimulate some other form of treatment such as surgery or radiation therapy. Adjuvant chemotherapy is commonly used in the therapy of cancer and can be administered before or after the primary treatment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| freund's adjuvant | The complete version of this immunostimulating adjuvant contains heat-killed tuberculosis bacteria emulsified in white mineral oil. It is used in immunological research involving lab animals, but not in humans, since it could cause allergic responses or autoimmune problems. The bacterial cells are omitted in the incomplete verson of the adjuvant. (09 Oct 1997) |
| Freund's complete adjuvant | Water-in-oil emulsion of antigen, to which killed mycobacteria or tuberculosis bacteria are added. (05 Mar 2000) |
| abortion, incomplete | Abortion in which not all the products of conception have been expelled. (12 Dec 1998) |
| incomplete | 1. Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective. "A most imperfect and incomplete divine." (Milton) 2. <botany> Wanting any of the usual floral organs; said of a flower. <mathematics> Incomplete equation, an equation some of whose terms are wanting; or one in which the coefficient of some one or more of the powers of the unknown quantity is equal to 0. Origin: L. Incompletus: cf. F. Incomplet. See In- not, and Complete. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| incomplete abortion | <obstetrics> A clinical situation where the foetus has died but has not been completely expelled from the uterus. (13 Nov 1997) |
| incomplete achromatopsia | Impaired, but not absent, colour vision with less severely reduced visual acuity than in complete achromatopsia; inherited as an autosomal recessive or as an X-linked disorder (blue cone monochromism; pi cone monochromatism ). (05 Mar 2000) |