adjuvant

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The Word of the Day for January 22 is: 

adjuvant   \AJ-uh-vunt\   adjective
          1 : serving to aid or contribute : auxiliary 
    *2 : assisting in the prevention, amelioration, or cure of disease 
 

Example sentence:
          Dr. Browne and his research team are running a clinical trial to test 
the effectiveness of adjuvant chemotherapy after surgery.

Did you know?
          Things that are adjuvant rarely get top billing -- they're the 
supporting players, not the stars. But that doesn't mean they're not important. 
An adjuvant medicine, for example, can have a powerful healing effect when 
teamed up with another medicine or curative treatment. "Adjuvant" descends from 
the Latin verb "adjuvare" ("to aid"), which also gave us our nouns "coadjutor" 
("assistant") and "aid." These days, "adjuvant" tends to turn up most often in 
medical contexts, but it can also be used in the general sense of "serving to 
aid." Likewise, the noun "adjuvant" can mean "a drug or method that enhances 
the effectiveness of medical treatment" or simply "one that helps or 
facilitates."





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