(n.) Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it.
(n.) A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate.
(n.) A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "History."
(n.) A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.
(n.) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.
Example Sentences:
(1) EMLA cream, usually used for skin surface analgesia, was tested as an adjunct to anesthesia in dermabrasion.
(2) CT is useful as an adjunct to the clinical examination in predicting outcome after SAH.
(4) Por the treatment of L.A., adjunction of dialysis and furosemide improved the efficacy of early and massive sodium bicarbonate infusion.
(5) The data document the compliance of adolescent girls with telephone appointments and suggest that this technique may be a useful adjunct for monitoring patients requiring close medical follow-up.
(6) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(7) This study raises the possibility of lithium carbonate use as an adjunct in the treatment of amphetamine addiction.
(8) Transluminal iliac angioplasty is a valuable adjunct to distal bypass surgery by improving arterial inflow without the requirement for major aorto iliac surgery.
(9) A new approach is presented to the refractive procedure by adding observation, both surreptitious and direct, as an adjunct, an aid and a supplement to differential diagnosis in a refractive examination and in visual analysis.
(10) The efficacy of adjunctive verapamil on psychopathological symptoms and tardive dyskinesia was investigated in 22 chronic schizophrenic patients, who had partially responded to neuroleptics.
(11) Postmortem biochemical indices may provide a useful adjunct to morphological studies in the identification of antemortem brain insult.
(12) immunoglobulin, purified from the plasma of local semi-immune blood donors, as an adjunct to standard treatment for cerebral malaria in Malawian children.
(13) The rationale for the use of exercise as part of the treatment program in type II diabetes is much clearer and regular exercise may be prescribed as an adjunct to caloric restriction for weight reduction and as a means of improving insulin sensitivity in the obese, insulin-resistant individual.
(14) Endoscopic coagulation is a useful adjunct in the treatment of this condition, and is safe, effective, and leaves other options open.
(15) These studies suggest that intraarterial UK may be a useful adjunctive therapy after revascularization of the acutely ischemic limb and that further clinical trials are recommended.
(16) The perfluoropropane gas was used as an adjunct to vitreoretinal microsurgery in 60 eyes of 60 patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment complicated by proliferative vitreoretinopathy.
(17) These results show that NSE is almost as sensitive as, but more specific than, S100 protein in discriminating Langerhans-cell from non-Langerhans cell cutaneous histiocytoses, and that it consequently represents a useful adjunct in the immunohistochemical diagnosis of histiocytic skin diseases.
(18) Surgery must be considered the mainstay of therapy for fibrosarcoma, but there is a need for adjunctive therapy.
(19) In addition, most of the studies used HBO as an adjunctive treatment in the management of refractory osteoradionecrosis.
(20) Combined with complete bowel rest, intravenous hyperalimentation can effectively function as the primary treatment or as an adjunct to the surgical management of the complications of inflammatory bowel disease.
Dispensable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being dispensed or administered.
(a.) Capable of being dispensed with.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the flat-fee system, drug charges are not recorded when the drug is dispensed by the pharmacy; data for charging doses are obtained directly from the MAR forms generated by the nursing staff.
(2) The surgical procedure, using a dispensable tendon, could be directly associated to the sutures of the proximal injuries of the cubital nerve as a temporary palliative.
(3) Thus, phosphorylation and the 25 carboxy-terminal amino acids appear to be dispensable for protein function.
(4) Those behind it have once again taken the law into their own hands and dispensed a vile form of rough justice.
(5) He was greeted in Kyoto by Abe, with the men dispensing with the formal handshake that starts most head of governments' greetings in favour of a full body hug.
(6) Because contact lenses present a management problem, this method of dispensation will be used only for selected cases.
(7) I have no experience of an actual car club, but I don't see how you can lose by dispensing with it, unless you live somewhere with very poor public transport.
(8) Thus the private sector, which is far from being saturated, has sufficient knowledge available and dispenses care ethically in agreement with institutional recommendations.
(9) A rapid gas chromatographic method has been developed which dispenses with separation operations and measures oxalic acid as a diethylester by means of back-flushing, and using malonic acid as an internal standard.
(10) These two genetic elements are separated by approximately 3,000 bp of R6K sequences which are dispensable for alpha origin activity.
(11) These data suggest that RAP1 is a central regulator of both telomere and chromosome stability and define a C-terminal domain that, while dispensable for viability, is required for these telomeric functions.
(12) There were no differences in the number of voids in the automixed material dispensed using the intra-oral tip or impression syringe.
(13) Regarding the latter problem, a revised method which dispenses with recording paper is under consideration.
(14) Deletion analysis of the LTR indicates that upstream promoter and enhancer elements are dispensible for trans-activation, while sequences 3' of the RNA start site displaying strict orientation and position dependence are required.
(15) Other "speech" regions in the left hemisphere appeared to be dispensable for the production of single oral movements, whether these were verbal or nonverbal movements.
(16) Duodenal flows of total, indispensible and dispensible amino acids were increased (P less than .05) when steers were fed SBM treatments compared with UC, and greater (P less than .05) when steers were fed ET compared with NT.
(17) Oral and rectal dispension of large quantities of the lethal factor does not induce toxic symptoms in rodents.
(18) I don't know much about gardening, but barstool footcare advice I can dispense.
(19) The time and paperwork involved in dispensing by a physician cannot be considered as minimal interruptions in normal office procedure.
(20) It also examined the needs of dispensers of care and relatives (whether mourning or not) of these persons.