(n.) A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty.
(n.) A species of very large stork (Ciconia argala), a native of India; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ridgway Adjutant General's Corps (Educational and Training Services Branch) Army Reserve.
(2) Adjutant General's Corps (Educational and Training Services Branch).
(3) Adjutant General’s Corps (Staff and Personnel Support Branch) WO Class 1 Andrew George Johnson.
(4) Adjutant General’s Corps (Staff and Personnel Support Branch) Acting Lt Col Alan Francis O’Flanagan.
(5) Adjutant General’s Corps (Educational and Training Services Branch) Maj Guy John Nathaniel Mason.
(6) In five cases, adjutant endoscopic procedures were performed.
(7) Cpl Michael Clark Adjutant General's Corps (Staff and Personnel Support Branch).
(8) "It ought to be asked at the start and recorded in documents, particularly because of things like PTSD [post traumatic stress disorder]," said the retired adjutant general.
(9) Older priests occasionally found the former adjutant slightly laughable and questioned his assumption that his way to holiness was the only way.
(10) I don’t think that is an immediate plan,” he said, “but I think anywhere in the world … I wouldn’t rule anything out.” In an attempt to defend his national security credentials, Walker also spoke of “risk assessments given to me by the FBI and my adjutant general” in his role as governor of Wisconsin .
(11) He's right that it is a problem for the Labour party that it is led by two former adjutants of Gordon Brown, one of whom was City minister.
(12) Nominally, the intention was for Anthony to perform as a sort of adjutant to the general and as a youthful link between the princes of Astor's court.
(13) Late Adjutant General’s Corps (Army Legal Services Branch) Maj Gen John Crackett, TD.
(14) Adjutant General’s Corps (Royal Military Police) Acting Maj Douglas Charles Muirhead.
(15) Adjutant General’s Corps (Staffand Personnel Support Branch) Lt Col Andrew Martin Hart.
(16) Although LAM-B is a common antigen of both mycobacterium tuberculosis and mycobacterium leprae, the low prevalence of leprosy in China makes little influence of the practicability of using this ELISA in epidemiological study and in clinic as a adjutant tool for tuberculosis diagnosis and differential diagnosis.
Adjuvant
Definition:
(n.) A substance added to an immunogenic agent to enhance the production of antibodies.
(n.) A substance added to a formulation of a drug which enhances the effect of the active ingredient.
(a.) Helping; helpful; assisting.
(n.) An assistant.
(n.) An ingredient, in a prescription, which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient.
Example Sentences:
(1) PMNs could be primed for PMA-triggered oxidative burst by muramyl peptide molecules (MDP) and two of its adjuvant active nonpyrogenic derivatives.
(2) Psychiatric morbidity is further increased when adjuvant chemotherapy is used and when treatment results in persistent arm pain and swelling.
(3) A young man being treated with primary adjuvant Adriamycin and DDP for osteogenic sarcoma is described who developed a gingival line which temporally was related to DDP administration.
(4) Adjuvant radiation therapy can often improve the results obtained with surgical excision alone.
(5) This result is equivalent to the best adjuvant chemotherapy results reported to date.
(6) This experimental study shows that vitamin A in high doses has an adjuvant effect, that is aggravating considerably the immunologic arthritis induced in the Wistar rat.
(7) The effects of gold thioglucose loading on Se distribution, and on Se-dependent GSH peroxidase and GSH S-transferase, were examined in rats fed three dietary levels of Se (0, 0.2, and 2.0 ppm), and with or without adjuvant-induced inflammation.
(8) They were given to volunteers by the subcutaneous route with and without the addition of Al (OH)3 as adjuvant.
(9) Despite use of surgical adjuvants, pelvic adhesions frequently develop following infertility surgery.
(10) Effective adjuvanticity as measured by the titre of the anti-peptide or anti-protein response in mice varied in the order: Algammulin, Montanide ISA 50 greater than or equal to Freund's adjuvant, Montanide ISA 708, 721, 70 much greater than alum, Squalene Arlacel greater than SAF-1.
(11) However, it remains clear that new and innovative techniques are necessary in the therapeutic, adjuvant, and palliative settings in the comprehensive care of the patient with hepatocellular carcinoma.
(12) Mice (C57BL) infected with the intestinal nematode Nematospiroides dubius showed depressed delayed type hypersensitivity responses to ovalbumin administered subcutaneously in Freund's complete adjuvant.
(13) The cells transferred were of three types, normal spleen cells, T cell-enriched spleen and lymph node cells from mice immunized with testis homogenate (TH) in complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA) and given an extract of Bordetella pertussis (BP) and the latter cells activated by in vitro culture with TH antigen for 48 h. Controls were given buffer alone.
(14) Embolization was considered an adjuvant procedure; carried out to reduce the size of the malformation or eliminate the deep arterial supply to it prior to excision.
(15) The fourth rabbit repeatedly developed a small abscess at the implantation site, but the lesions were less severe than complete Freund's adjuvant injection sites.
(16) Inbred strain 2 and random-bred guinea pigs injected oxazolone in incomplete or complete Freund's adjuvant showed contact reactions within an hour after topical application when tested 3 weeks post-sensititization.
(17) This paper reports on the incorporation of acid phosphatase histochemistry with a quantitative technique designed to measure the percentage of histochemically-localized enzyme-reactive cells found in adjuvant arthritic articular cartilage, synovial membrane and bone marrow.
(18) Disturbance of the arterial circulation in the ipsilateral upper limb following mastectomy is a rare sequel attributed to adjuvant radiotherapy.
(19) Of 10 patients presenting with Stage I disease, eight were treated with adjuvant chemotherapy.
(20) The transfer of spleen cells from adjuvant cyclophosphamide-treated mice to tumor-inoculated normal mice significantly delayed tumor appearance when comparison was made with animals treated by operation alone, and such recipients also exhibited a more prolonged survival.