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postprandial

[ UK /pə‍ʊstpɹˈændɪəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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.
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