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intermeal en · ADJ

Etymology

From inter- + meal.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Between meals.
    • The meal pattern up to 12 h (mostly dark phase) after surgery still showed a significant reduction of feeding bouts, time spent on meals, and meal frequency, duration and size by 27%, 88%, 77%, 73% and 87%, respectively, and the intermeal interval (IMI) tend ^([sic]) to be prolonged and the satiety ratio increased by 16.7 times (Table 1). 2015 October 1, “Patterns of Brain Activation and Meal Reduction Induced by Abdominal Surgery in Mice and Modulation by Rikkunshito”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI: