Intermeal
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Between meals. not-comparable
"The meal pattern up to 12 h (mostly dark phase) after surgery still showed a significant reduction of feeding bouts, time spent on meals, and meal frequency, duration and size by 27%, 88%, 77%, 73% and 87%, respectively, and the intermeal interval (IMI) tend ^([sic]) to be prolonged and the satiety ratio increased by 16.7 times (Table 1)."
Example
More examples"The meal pattern up to 12 h (mostly dark phase) after surgery still showed a significant reduction of feeding bouts, time spent on meals, and meal frequency, duration and size by 27%, 88%, 77%, 73% and 87%, respectively, and the intermeal interval (IMI) tend ^([sic]) to be prolonged and the satiety ratio increased by 16.7 times (Table 1)."
Etymology
From inter- + meal.
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