Postprandial

Definition: Postprandial

Postprandial

Adjective

1. Following a meal (especially dinner); "his postprandial cigar"; "took a postprandial walk".

Date "postprandial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1877. (references)

Note: Postprandial \Post*pran"di*al\, adjective. [Prefix post- prandial.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definition: Postprandial

Domain	Definition
Health	Occurring after dinner, or after a meal; postcibal. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Antonym: preprandial (adj). (additional references)

Top

Synonyms within Context: Postprandial

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Posteriority	Postdiluvian; puisne; posthumous; future; afterdinner, postprandial.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Top

Crosswords: Postprandial

Specialty definitions using "postprandial": Enprostil ♦ Postgastrectomy Syndromes. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Postprandial" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (postprandial), French (postprandial), German (postprandial).

Top

Non-Fiction Usage: Postprandial

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Service, F. J. Hypoglycemia and the postprandial syndrome. (references)
		Individual foods containing carbohydrate can have a high, medium, or low impact on postprandial blood glucose. (references)
		Palardy, J. et al. Blood glucose measurements during symptomatic episodes in patients with suspected postprandial hypoglycemia. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Top

Usage Frequency: Postprandial

"Postprandial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.26% of the time. "Postprandial" is used about 115 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	98.26%	113	30,464
Noun (proper)	1.74%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	115	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top

Expressions: Postprandial

Expressions using "postprandial": Postprandial Blood Glucose ♦ Postprandial Period ♦ Postprandial plasma blood glucose. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Postprandial

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
postprandial	15
hypoglycemia postprandial	5
hypoglycemia postprandial reactive	2
glucose postprandial	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Modern Translation: Postprandial

Language		Translations for "postprandial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pas drekës, pas darkës. (various references)

Arabic		‏بعديوليومي بعد الوليمة أو الطعام. (various references)

Bulgarian		следобеден (postmeridian). (various references)

Danish		postprandial. (various references)

Dutch		postprandiaal. (various references)

Finnish		postprandiaalinen, aterianjälkeinen. (various references)

French		postprandial. (various references)

German		postprandial. (various references)

Greek		μετά το γεύμα, μεταγευματικός. (various references)

Hungarian		ebéd utáni. (various references)

Italian		postprandiale. (various references)

Manx		erreish da'n lhongey. (various references)

Pig Latin		ostprandialpay

Portuguese		pós-prandial, pós-prandial. (various references)

Russian		послеобеденный (after-dinner). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		posle jela. (various references)

Spanish		posprandial, que se da después de comer, de sobremesa (after-dinner). (various references)

Swedish		efter middagen (pm, post meridiem). (various references)

Turkish		yemekten sonraki, yemek sonrası. (various references)

Ukrainian		післяобідній (after-dinner, afternoon). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top

Rhyming with "Postprandial"

Words rhyming with "postprandial" (pronounced 'Post*pran"di*al'): Abactinal, Abbatial, Abbatical, Abdal, Aberrational, Abettal, Abhal, Abhominal, Abiological, Abnormal, Aboral, Abortional, Abranchial, Absinthial, Abstractional, Abuttal, Abysmal, Abyssal, Academial, Accentual, Accessional, Accessorial, Accipitral, Accrementitial, Accrual, Accusal, Accusatival, Accusatorial, Acephal, Acerval, Acetal, Achenial, Acnodal, Aconital, Acoustical, Acquittal, Acranial, Acritical, Acromial, Acropetal, Acroterial, Actinal, Actinozoal, Actuarial, Adagial, Adambulacral, Adaptorial, Adenological, Adjectional, Adjectival. (additional references)

Top

Anagrams: Postprandial

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-i-l-n-o-p-p-r-s-t"
	-2 letters: antipodals, palpations, proplastid, trainloads.
	-3 letters: adaptions, antipodal, antisolar, palpation, palpators, paranoids, pastorali, rationals, strappado, talapoins, trainload.
	-4 letters: adaption, adaptors, alations, antidora, appoints, aspirant, atropins, dalapons, diapason, diaspora, diastral, diatrons, dilators, dioptral, diplonts, displant, intrados, laniards, loadstar, notarial, oppidans, oppilant, ordinals, orinasal, paladins, palpator, pandoras, paranoid, parlando, parodist, parotids, partials, partisan, pastoral, patronal, pintadas.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.