postprandial

• post-prandial

From post- +‎ prandial.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpəʊs(t)ˈpɹan.dɪ.əl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈpɹæn.di.əl/

• Audio (General American):

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• Hyphenation: post‧prand‧ial

postprandial (not comparable)

1. 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 Nyhan, editors, Inherited Metabolic Diseases: A Clinical Approach, Heidelberg: Springer, →DOI, →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.

   • 2020 May 25, Abby Ellin, “Couples Who Eat Together May Not Stay Together”, in New York Times‎:

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

• postmeal
• postcibal (uncommon)

• premeal
• preprandial
• precibal (uncommon)

• idiopathic postprandial syndrome
• postprandial dip
• postprandially

• preprandially
• prandial

• food coma

• “postprandial”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• IPA^(key): /pɔst.pʁɑ̃.djal/

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postprandial (feminine postprandiale, masculine plural postprandiaux, feminine plural postprandiales)

1. (medicine) postprandial

From post- +‎ prandial.

postprandial m or n (feminine singular postprandială, masculine plural postprandiali, feminine and neuter plural postprandiale)

1. postprandial

• IPA^(key): /posdpɾanˈdjal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: post‧pran‧dial

postprandial m or f (masculine and feminine plural postprandiales)

1. postprandial

• “postprandial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10