prandial

This blood test is done two hours after you have eaten ("prandial" means meal).

At first, admittedly, I was pleased with my prandial windfall.

Prandial Musings appeared in thumb position on the op-ed page, a good spot!

If the mites are exposed to short days after this prandial insult, they don't show a diapause.

In fact he closed his eyes and I thought for a moment he was settling down for a post prandial nap.

This meal-associated (prandial) insulin production is roughly proportional to the amount of carbohydrate in the meal.

In every patient the recording, which lasted approximately eight hours, included upright, supine, prandial, and postprandial periods.

Hannigan had been politely spoken throughout their prandial small-talk, but nonetheless Harry could tell the careful articulacy was a courtesy to him.

While a model might be happy with a few celery sticks, a celebrity requires prandial pampering, often to the benefit of New York restaurants and caterers.

The mean wave frequency was 2.36 c/min (range 0.1-12.4) with the higher values occurring during the prandial periods (Table I), although this did not reach statistical significance.

The name is a comment on journalists' supposed traditional fondness for alcohol, their prandial habits, and the suspicion that they pick up many of their stories in public houses.

It reduces meal-related hyperglycemia (for 12 hours after administration) by increasing insulin secretion, delaying gastric emptying, and suppressing prandial glucagon secretion.

If he desired prandial refreshment, Barbour could stroll down to the Caucus Room, with feasting senators in the lunchtime crowd and a salad on the menu named after him.

He called at the surgery shortly after lunch the following day and Siegfried and I, enjoying a post prandial cigarette in the sitting-room, heard the jangle of the door bell.

In at least one routine, the show leaps over the edge into grotesquerie, as Penn and a female assistant, Carol Perkins, engage in a mock-sexual challenge match of prandial pyromania - or fire-eating.

We Spaniards do indeed dote on children, with unabashed enthusiasm; our prandial habits are certainly of the late-night variety, and, yes, we are unlikely to engage in the mile-high carryings-on she so distressingly encountered.

Travel professionals say that France, Spain and Italy remain by far gastronauts' prandial playgrounds, though in recent years they have established beachheads in Argentina, Chile, Australia and Southeast Asia.

So resonant is it of a luxury liner I half expect to be roused at the lights from my post prandial snooze with a snifter delivered on a silver salver - not the vulgar hoot from the white van snarling behind.

The amplitude, wave duration, motility index (contractions/minutex mean amplitude of contractionxmean duration of contration), wave frequency, and wave velocity were analysed in the upright and supine positions and during prandial and postprandial periods.

On three or four occasions, my attempts to communicate, no doubt with rising volume, my prandial fancy to a non-English speaking waiter have failed utterly, and after much confident nodding on the waiter's side, I've eventually been presented with a dish that I would have been unable to order even if I'd ever heard of it.