postprandial
English
    
WOTD – 13 May 2006
    Alternative forms
    
Pronunciation
    
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌpəʊs(t)ˈpɹan.dɪ.əl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈpɹæn.di.əl/
- Audio (GA) - (file) 
- Hyphenation: post‧prand‧ial
Adjective
    
postprandial (not comparable)
- After a meal, especially after dinner.
- 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:- 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) […].
 
- 2010, Johannes Zschocke, “Function Tests”, in Georg F. Hoffmann, Johannes Zschocke, William L[eo] Nyhan, editors, Inherited Metabolic Diseases: A Clinical Approach, Heidelberg: Springer, , →ISBN, page 347, column 1:- The standardized analysis of metabolic parameters in the preprandial and postprandial state may provide important functional clues for the diagnosis of metabolic disorders.
 
- 2015, “Answers”, in Kathleen P. Freeman, Stefanie Klenner, editors, Veterinary Clinical Pathology: A Case-based Approach, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 132:- 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.
 
 
Antonyms
    
- premeal
- preprandial
- precibal (uncommon)
Derived terms
    
Related terms
    
Translations
    
after a meal
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See also
    
References
    
- “postprandial”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
French
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /pɔst.pʁɑ̃.djal/
- Audio - (file) 
Adjective
    
postprandial (feminine postprandiale, masculine plural postprandiaux, feminine plural postprandiales)
Romanian
    
    
Adjective
    
postprandial m or n (feminine singular postprandială, masculine plural postprandiali, feminine and neuter plural postprandiale)
Declension
    
	Declension of postprandial
	| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative | indefinite | postprandial | postprandială | postprandiali | postprandiale | ||
| definite | postprandialul | postprandiala | postprandialii | postprandialele | |||
| genitive/ dative | indefinite | postprandial | postprandiale | postprandiali | postprandiale | ||
| definite | postprandialului | postprandialei | postprandialilor | postprandialelor | |||
Spanish
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /posdpɾanˈdjal/ [pozð̞.pɾãn̪ˈd̪jal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: post‧pran‧dial
Further reading
    
- “postprandial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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