Examples of postprandial in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Cynar is used in pre-dinner drinks like spritz and negroni, but is also drunk as a postprandial digestif because of its savory artichoke flavor. — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 26 June 2021 Glenlaurel Scottish Inn’s six-course dinner (prix fixe from $65; 72-hour advance reservation encouraged; glenlaurel.com) fortifies a postprandial moth hunt conducted by lepidopterist Chris Kline at his Butterfly Ridge Conservation Center. — Andrew Nelson, WSJ, 2 July 2021 At a postprandial gathering with friends, talk turns to the crucial reconnection with nature after months trapped within four walls rarely unplugged from screens and technology. — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 28 June 2021 Zimmer brings us to pythons in a lab that remain in a minimal metabolic state until they are fed, and then ramp up the activity in their tissues; the change from the resting state to their postprandial state has no parallel in the vertebrate world. — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021 Patterson parked just off I-5, which bisects the lagoon, and, with semis rumbling in the background, prepared to take a postprandial nap. — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020 Biologists have actually been able to measure this physiological dip in our alertness—what science calls a postprandial dip—through changes in our metabolic system, as well as adjustments in our brain waves, and in our cognitive reaction times. — Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2017 The woman also reportedly suffered from postprandial chest pain, or chest pain after meals. — Maggie O'neill, Health.com, 29 Apr. 2020 A year later, blood samples were collected from the patients for analysis of fasting and postprandial levels of ghrelin, leptin, peptide YY, amylin and other hormones. — Daniel Engber, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2020

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