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meal marker

noun

Definitions

  1. A substance added to food to allow the measurement of how quickly it passes through the…

    A substance added to food to allow the measurement of how quickly it passes through the segments of the digestive tract.

    • The incorporation of guar gum into a radiolabelled homogenised meal in rats delayed the delivery of the meal marker from the stomach into the small intestine and also from the small intestine into the colon.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for meal marker. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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