Meaning of postprandial | Babel Free

Definitions

After a meal, especially after dinner.

not-comparable

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Examples

“postprandial somnolence”

food coma

“As a post-prandial speaker, however, Thackeray was undeniably the reverse of felicitous.”

“The Arch-Vicar is picking his teeth. There is a comfortable, postprandial silence.”

“Patients who demonstrate significant insulin resistance at diagnosis and require insulin therapy may alternate preprandial and postprandial evaluations to enable more rapid optimization of control by using an additional supplemental insulin sliding scale as needed to cover preprandial hyperglycaemia (>100 ml per dl)[…].”

“The standardized analysis of metabolic parameters in the preprandial and postprandial state may provide important functional clues for the diagnosis of metabolic disorders.”

“Intimate, discreet and modestly quite proud of itself, it [the book] has the tone of the postprandial speech that Bannister gave at Pembroke College to 120 of his friends, looking over his life, like the portrait on the panelled walls of himself as Master.”

“The slight increase in pre-prandial and post-prandial bile acids are suggestive of hepatic dysfunction, but other causes of slight elevations, such as pancreatic or gastrointestinal disease, cannot be ruled out.”

“But the most egregious transgression, at least in her opinion, is his postprandial habit of chomping and crunching on nuts.”

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