[
UK
/pəʊstpɹˈændɪəl/
]
ADJECTIVE
-
following a meal (especially dinner)
took a postprandial walk
his postprandial cigar
How To Use postprandial In A Sentence
- But what happens in the body to cause this post-feast dip—known as postprandial somnolence in the medical community—isn't clear. Week in Words
- In pregnancy and obesity, increased fasting and postprandial residual gall bladder volumes are associated with increased risk of gall stone formation.
- Clinical trials have shown that a dose of 4 g/day is effective at regulating postprandial lipemia.
- In patients who required insulin therapy during pregnancy, it is reasonable to check fasting and two-hour postprandial glucose levels before hospital discharge.
- The dominant symptoms were crampy postprandial pain, sitophobia, changes in bowel habits and cachexia. BioMed Central - Latest articles
- He was a man of routine and having dined with his elder son, Robert, he retired as usual for his postprandial nap - only last Monday he did not wake up.
- The article, "Eating slowly increases the postprandial response of the anorexigenic gut hormone, Peptide YY and Glucagon like peptide-1," will appear in the January 2010 issue of Contact Information Newswise: Latest News
- A nonlinear relationship was observed between coronary heart and stroke mortality with the two hour postprandial blood glucose.
- Bhang and Kusumbá (opium dissolved and strained through a pledges of cotton) are always drunk before dinner and thus the “jolly” time is the preprandial, not the postprandial. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- An earlier controlled crossover study of Phase 2 versus placebo in normoglycemic individuals measured pre- and postprandial glucose levels.