"modulant" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "immunomodulant"
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          "word": "paramodulant"
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          "ref": "1911, William Churchill, The Polynesian Wanderings, page 368:",
          "text": "These senses are not restrictive in the languages which have both stems, and we are not warranted in suggesting more than that there may have been a distinctive value to each of the terminal consonant modulants, but that in the drift along the ages and across the seas the distinction has in some places become obscured.",
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          "ref": "2001, Suzanne Catty, Hydrosols: The Next Aromatherapy:",
          "text": "Essential oils are known immune modulants, and because they are so concentrated, it is reasonable to assume that, in certain cases, some oils may be too strong for some systems.",
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        "Something that serves to modify something else."
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  "word": "modulant"
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      "word": "immunomodulant"
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    {
      "word": "paramodulant"
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