postprandial

adj

1. (not-comparable)After a meal, especially after dinner.

   “postprandial somnolence”

   “As a post-prandial speaker, however, Thackeray was undeniably the reverse of felicitous.”

   “The Arch-Vicar is picking his teeth. There is a comfortable, postprandial silence.”

   “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)[…].”

   “The standardized analysis of metabolic parameters in the preprandial and postprandial state may provide important functional clues for the diagnosis of metabolic disorders.”