(n.) Something which creates or whets an appetite.
Example Sentences:
(1) A kung pao chicken appetizer was made with chicken McNuggets doused in sweet and sour sauce and garnished with parsley.
(2) Host-tick contact is possible when ticks are hungry, when ticks exhibit a positive appetence response, and when ticks and host animals are together in time and space.
(3) Further, no significant changes in whole-mouth secretion rates were observed when subjects viewed photographs of two appetizing foods, or of fresh doughnuts in a plastic box, even though subjects knew they could eat the doughnuts after the experiment.
(4) Food stimuli were rated as more appetizing by the nonobese after high-calorie meals, but not so by the obese.
(5) Subjects chewed and spat out an appetizing steak and french-fried potato meal (modified sham feeding), with the increase in the weight of the meal during sham feeding taken to represent salivary secretion.
(6) They present the basic four types of children who incline to failure in this respect: markedly extrovert subjects with good intellect, markedly submissive children, more introvert subjects with inferior intellect, neglected children with poor intellect and behavioural disorders and children with a high appetence for the drug.
(7) Oliver then detailed a plan to air commercials that actually educate the president on important issues, such as explaining the nuclear triad, how to use appetizer forks and what his other daughter is called.
(8) Results showed a progressive and statistically significant rise in gastric acid secretion when an appetizing, self-selected meal was anticipated.
(9) Cephalic stimulation was induced by a modified sham feeding (MSF) technique, during which subjects chewed and expectorated appetizing food.
(10) These differences were related to disparities in the spatial distribution of the hosts, their activity patterns and the specific appetence responses of the two tick species.
(11) The sight of appetizing food (without smell or taste), the smell of appetizing food (without sight or taste), or the combination of sight and smell (without taste) also increased acid secretion and serum gastrin concentrations significantly.
(12) The ewes were given intravenous fluid therapy, and 90 minutes after the onset of signs, the ewes were standing, dull, and appetent.
(13) Nausea in response to an appetizing food stimulus was assessed in bulimic women and healthy control subjects.
(14) The dominance of appetency is caused by the favourable social and pedagogic conditions in socialist society and is regarded as a prerequisite of successful therapy.
(15) A summary of investigations concerning changes in the sexual life due to the psychiatric illness is divided into results on the changes in the frequency of sexual activities and changes in sexual appetence, results on sexual deviant acts, on sexual activities of psychiatric inpatients, and results on sexual orientation, especially for patients with paranoid symptoms.
(16) The contrast between frequent behavioural disorders in school on the one hand, and the general positive attitude towards school is interpreted as a appetency-aversion conflict.
(17) This may have been the moment when a bid began to look truly appetizing to the Premier League.
(18) Salivary flow was measured in response to six appetizing odours: peppermint, vanilla, chocolate, beef, tomato and lemon.
(19) Lifting of dietary restrictions, which results in a more appetizing and nutritious diet, does not cause symptomatic deterioration or precipitate intestinal obstruction in Crohn's disease.
(20) The authors express the view that changes in the orgastic capacity of women are rather than sexual appetence a sensitive and useful indicator of psychological influences.
Postprandial
Definition:
(a.) Happening, or done, after dinner; after-dinner; as, postprandial speeches.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, it has been suggested that vasoactive gastrointestinal peptides are involved in the etiology of postprandial BP reduction.
(2) Conflicting reports exist on the postprandial response of serum cationic trypsin like immunoreactivity (SCTLI).
(3) Both the SPI and EW groups had significantly higher levels of CPA and CPB activity at 1 h postprandial than the C group.
(4) In the postprandial state net acid (4.9%) and sulfate (2.2%) had much less importance as determinants of calciuria.
(5) Alternatively, the data presented herein strongly suggest that diets containing conventional quantities of fat, in which saturated fat is replaced by unsaturated fat and dietary cholesterol reduced, would result in the desired reductions to total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations without the adverse effects of increased postprandial glucose and insulin concentrations, increased fasting and postprandial total and very-low-density lipoprotein triglyceride concentrations, and decreased fasting high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations.
(6) This study shows that the presence of pancreatic juice in the duodenal lumen enhances the fat-stimulated release of enteric hormones that have a stimulatory action on the enteroacinar and enteroinsular axis as well as an inhibitory action (enterogastrone-like activity) on the postprandial regulation of gastric function.
(7) Preprandial and postprandial blood glucose levels were measured for each meal and snack (18 measurements per day).
(8) Postprandially, the capsule remained in the stomach for the duration of the 6-hour observation period.
(9) O2 consumption (VO2) was measured during a submaximal treadmill exercise test 165 min postprandially before and the morning after the overfeeding protocol.
(10) Slowing starch digestion by inhibiting amylase activity in the intestinal lumen should improve postprandial carbohydrate tolerance in patients with diabetes mellitus.
(11) During the postprandial period, increase of pH values was prolonged over 2 h 30 in 50 p. 100 of subjects.
(12) To determine whether basal insulin supplementation in addition to lowering postabsorptive plasma glucose concentration also improves the postprandial pattern of glucose disposition, glucose metabolism after ingestion of a solid mixed meal was assessed in obese patients with NIDDM before and after treatment with ultralente and compared with glucose metabolism observed in nondiabetic subjects.
(13) After colonoscopic positioning of a manometric probe, 2-h basal and 3-h postprandial (1000 kcal standard mixed meal) recordings were obtained.
(14) After a modified Child's reconstruction, the postprandial level was significantly lower than in the controls and in patients with a Billroth II anastomosis.
(15) Plasma secretin concentrations were within the postprandial range during the lowest four secretin infusion rates.
(16) Postprandial increases in VFA, BOHB and L-lactate net flux across PDV followed meal-feeding of lucerne.
(17) Basal and postprandial serum gastrin concentrations were measured in week 1, before (day 1) and immediately after the 3-day omeprazole course (day 4), and further on day 6 and day 8, immediately before the next course, and at similar intervals in week 4 (days 22, 25, 27, and 29).
(18) However, the sensitivity shown by the 24-h period of esophageal pH-recording was 81%, whereas that for the 12-h period was 50% and that for 10 h postprandially 70%.
(19) The influence of vagal integrity on NPY, PYY, and PP basal and postprandial release was evaluated using a new technique of reversible cryogenic cervical vagal blockade in an awake canine model.
(20) Out-patient follow-up over a period of 12 months showed constant satisfactory mean day blood sugar values and morning postprandial blood sugar.