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"postprandial" means "after eating a meal". Postprandial plasma is blood plasma extracted after the giver had lunch (it will be richer, more nutritive).

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How do you use postprandial in a sentence?

Postprandial responses were studied in a subset of twelve, were included.


What are postprandial disorders and is ulcer a type of postprandial disorders as it can also happen after a meal?

Postprandial just means after a meal, and can be applied to such things as hypertension. An ulcer is not of itself postprandial as it's there all the time, but it could certainly flare up after a meal.


Word for after meals?

postprandial


In a 'postprandial period' what has one just finished doing?

The postprandial period comes just after one has finished eating a meal or any food intake. An example would be taking a postprandial walk on the beach.


What is the abbreviation for postprandial blood sugar?

ppg


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For a postprandial glucose test, you are required to eat 2 hours before a sample of your blood is taken. The results of your postprandial glucose test should be ready in 1-to-2 hours.


What does postprandial mean?

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A Urine sample collected after a meal is called?

2-hour postprandial specimen


Which term means suffixes of eating?

The suffix -prandial means pertaining to a mail, as in postprandial.


Is there a specific name for the feeling of being sleepy after eating a meal?

Postprandial somnolence is feeling sleepy after a meal.


If a blood sample should be collected 2 hours postprandial when should the phlebotomist collect the sample?

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What is used to screen for diabetes mellitus and to monitor the effect of patient insulin regimen?

a two hour postprandial test BOOM!