Adjuvant

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In medicine, adjuvants are agents which modify the effect of other agents while having few if any direct effects when given by themselves. In this sense, they are very roughly analogous with chemical catalysts. Types of adjuvants include:

• Pharmaceutic adjuvant
• Immunologic adjuvant
• Adjuvant chemotherapy
• The term adjuvant was also adopted by visionary thinker Buckminster Fuller to describe Kiyoshi Kuromiya, who served as a writing partner for several books, including Critical Path, and the posthumously published Cosmography. Fuller chose that word very deliberately to describe the unique role that Kiyoshi had played in his last publications which he wished to acknowledge was a very active one. Fuller's usage comes from the dictionary's definition as "serving to aid or contribute; one that helps or facilitates."