(n.) The portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpose of satisfying hunger; a repast; the act or time of eating a meal; as, the traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal.
(n.) Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.
(n.) Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.
(v. t.) To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.
(v. t.) To pulverize; as, mealed powder.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have investigated a physiological role of endogenous insulin on exocrine pancreatic secretion stimulated by a liquid meal as well as exogenous secretin and cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK-8) in conscious rats.
(2) Concentrations of several gastrointestinal hormonal peptides were measured in lymph from the cisterna chyli and in arterial plasma; in healthy, conscious pigs during ingestion of a meal.
(3) In vivo studies were performed in five healthy subjects for at least 3 h after ingestion of radiolabeled meals.
(4) The company, part of the John Lewis Partnership, now sources all its beef from the UK, including in its ready meals, sandwiches and fresh mince.
(5) In the present study we examined cholecystokinin release and gallbladder contraction after oral administration of a commercial fatty meal (Sorbitract; Dagra, Diemen, The Netherlands) using ultrasonography in eight normal subjects and eight gallstone patients before and after 1 and 4 weeks of treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid (10 mg kg-1.day-1).
(6) A 14-year-old case was reported with a primary postbulbar duodenal ulcer, which was confirmed by barium meal study and duodenoscopy.
(7) The absorption of zinc from meals based on 60 g of rye, barley, oatmeal, triticale or whole wheat was studied by use of extrinsic labelling with 65Zn and measurement of the whole-body retention of the radionuclide.
(8) Relaxation situations are marked by relaxation, usually after a meal.
(9) Retention of iron from an RKB test meal was increased from 69.6 to 73% when about 90% of the extractable tannins were removed, but the difference was not statistically significant.
(10) Regardless of the habitual diet, a test meal accentuated the rate of triacylglycerol appearance in whole plasma and in the very low density lipoproteins of Triton WR-1339-treated monkeys, and the rate of increase of the protein component after feeding was slightly higher.
(11) Gastric emptying curves for all three meals in controls were best described using loge transformed counts.
(12) There was no significant difference between ratings after the high and low-fibre meals except for fullness, which was greater after the high-fibre breakfast.
(13) Special attention is given to the arrangement of meals inflight.
(14) Compared to the doses taken before and after the meal, the dose taken with the meal showed a significant delay in the time taken to reach therapeutic blood concentrations of the drug with no reduction in the period of time during which this concentration was maintained.
(15) We compared the effects of meals containing the same amounts of either isolated soy or beef protein on acid secretion and serum gastrin concentration in normal humans.
(16) Preprandial and postprandial blood glucose levels were measured for each meal and snack (18 measurements per day).
(17) There was less of an increase following a blood meal infected with the rodent malaria parasite, Plasmodium berghei.
(18) In vivo hepatic rates of fatty acid and cholesterol synthesis determined in meal-fed normolipidemic rats were suppressed significantly by the oral administration of (--)-hydroxycitrate for 6 hr, when control animals exhibited maximal rates of lipid synthesis; serum triglyceride and cholesterol levels were significantly reduced by (--)-hydroxycitrate.
(19) On the other hand, esophageal emptying of solid isotopic meals may show the persistence of food in the diverticular sac long time after the meal.
(20) Our findings suggest that (a) the inclusion of a liquid meal provides a reproducible method of measuring orocaecal transit using the lactulose hydrogen breath test, (b) rapid small bowel transit in thyrotoxicosis may be one factor in the diarrhoea which is a feature of the disease and (c) if altered gut transit is the cause of sluggish bowel habit in hypothyroidism, delay in the colon, and not small bowel, is likely to be responsible.
Mealtime
Definition:
(n.) The usual time of eating a meal.
Example Sentences:
(1) We assessed the efficacy of several procedures for reducing the rate of eating responses during mealtime by three institutionalized mentally retarded clients.
(2) In long-term care facilities, mealtime should be an important and exciting event that residents and staff look forward to three times a day.
(3) In the mealtime setting, two subjects began walking the maximum scored distance during baseline; the other six subjects showed a marked increase in walking beginning with the first meal in which the intervention was applied.
(4) Instead of a sugar bowl on the table, there's a little pot of probiotics: we're encouraged to take some at every mealtime, all the while discussing the state of our insides or whether omega 3s are all they're cracked up to be.
(5) Elapsed mealtime, number of mouthfuls per meal, and the time each mouthful was chewed were observed in thirty subjects, fourteen of whom were obese and sixteen, nonobese.
(6) Blood glucose ultradian rhythms seem to be mainly but not exclusively mealtime dependent, while I.R.I.
(7) Mealtime environmental conditions by no means met prescribed demands.
(8) 30 working-class and 33 upper-middle-class mothers were videotaped in dyadic interaction with their 18-29-month-old children in 4 settings--mealtime, dressing, book reading, and toy play.
(9) Psychosocial problems in those with dysphagia were given as anxiety at mealtimes and the wish to eat alone.
(10) Analysis of predefined time periods showed that non-meal daytime pH was reproducible in the corpus (W' = 0.6531, p less than 0.025) but not in the antrum (W' = 0.3395, NS), whereas mealtime pH was reproducible in the antrum (W' = 0.7159, p less than 0.005) but not in the corpus (W' = 0.4954, NS); nocturnal pH was not reproducible in either the antrum or the corpus.
(11) When detected early enough, many problems which occur at bedtime, mealtime and when dressing can be managed by the interested physician.
(12) Finally, mealtime free-insulin and C-peptide excursions appeared to be greater during infusion treatment when compared with lente or ultralente treatment.
(13) Data were gathered at the infants' homes by interview and by direct observation of mealtimes.
(14) Television was on at mealtime in 54.5% of cases; 45.2% of children were watching television for between 7 to 16 hours per week, and the heavy viewers belonged to families with low levels of maternal education (P less than .05).
(15) Food-entrainment, measured as behavioral anticipation of a 1-hr daily mealtime during the middle of the light period and persistence of this anticipation rhythm during food deprivation, was apparent in the aged rats when recorded in wheel-running cages from 20-21 months of age.
(16) Six psychiatry inpatients were observed during mealtimes to determine and evaluate staff intervention techniques.
(17) They had a say in travel arrangements – meticulous enough to locate a training base at Campo Bahia to minimise travel time to any venue, with all flights planned for after 7pm so players could eat first and there would be no interference with mealtimes.
(18) Half of the patients received their pills from a commercially prepared calendar mealtime blister-pak; the remaining patients received their medication from standard pill bottles.
(19) Behavior management strategies and a pleasant social context for mealtimes can improve children's eating and mealtime behavior.
(20) They have turned mealtimes into the focus of every ounce of existential angst and middle-class ennui they can muster.