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postprandial en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (General-American) audio
  • /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈpɹæn.di.əl/ (General-American)
  • /ˌpəʊs(t)ˈpɹan.dɪ.əl/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English prandial English postprandial From post- + prandial.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) After a meal, especially after dinner.
    • The Arch-Vicar is picking his teeth. There is a comfortable, postprandial silence. 1948 August, Aldous Huxley, “The Script”, in Ape and Essence, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 135:
    • postprandial somnolence
    • The standardized analysis of metabolic parameters in the preprandial and postprandial state may provide important functional clues for the diagnosis of metabolic disorders. 2010, Johannes Zschocke, “Function Tests”, in Georg F. Hoffmann, Johannes Zschocke, William L[eo] Nyhan, editors, Inherited Metabolic Diseases: A Clinical Approach, Heidelberg: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 347, column 1:
    • 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. 2014 May 6, Nicholas Shakespeare, “Twin Tracks by Roger Bannister”, in The Daily Telegraph:
    • 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. 2015, “Answers”, in Kathleen P. Freeman, Stefanie Klenner, editors, Veterinary Clinical Pathology: A Case-based Approach, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 132:
    • 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)[…]. 2007, Margarita de Veciana, Arthur T. Evans, “Endocrine Disorders: Diabetes”, in Arthur T. Evans, editor, Manual of Obstetrics, 7th edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 285:
    • But the most egregious transgression, at least in her opinion, is his postprandial habit of chomping and crunching on nuts. 2020 May 25, Abby Ellin, “Couples Who Eat Together May Not Stay Together”, in New York Times:
    • As a post-prandial speaker, however, Thackeray was undeniably the reverse of felicitous. 1894, George Augustus Sala, “The Real Thackeray”, in Things I Have Seen and People I Have Known […], volume I, London; Paris: Cassell and Company […], →OCLC, page 32:

Forms

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post-prandial alternative lexicographic

Antonyms

precibal · preprandial · premeal

Deriveds

postprandially · postprandial dip · idiopathic postprandial syndrome

Relateds

prandial · food coma · preprandially

Synonyms

postmeal · postcibal

Translations (12)

es después de comer (after a meal) · fi aterian jälkeinen (after a meal) · fr après le repas (after a meal) · cmn 餐後的 /餐后的 (after a meal) · pl poobiedni (after a meal) · bg следобеден (after a meal) · es de sobremesa (after a meal) · et söömingujärgne (after a meal) · cmn 飯後的 /饭后的 (after a meal) · ga iarphroinne (after a meal) · ru послеобе́денный (after a meal) · es posprandial (after a meal)