postprandial
adjUK /ˌpəʊs(t)ˈpɹan.dɪ.əl/ · US /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈpɹæn.di.əl/
Etymology From post- + prandial.
1
After a meal, especially after dinner.
- postprandial somnolence
- 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:
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- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- Derived terms
- idiopathic postprandial syndrome, postprandial dip, postprandially
- Related terms
- preprandially, prandial, food coma