Word.ws English Dictionary

postchallenge

postchallenge adjective: following a (metabolic) challenge.

Adjective

postchallenge (not comparable)

  1. Following a (metabolic) challenge
    • Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are provided in previous publications. 9–11 Participants underwent a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test and IGT was defined as a 2 h postchallenge glucose value of 7.8–11.0 mmol/L (with fasting plasma glucose 5.3–6.9 mmol/L).2015 August 14, David Preiss et al., “Prospective relationships between body weight and physical activity: an observational analysis from the NAVIGATOR study”, in BMJ Open, volume 5, →DOI

Origin of postchallenge

From post- + challenge.

Questions about postchallenge

What does postchallenge mean?
Postchallenge means following a (metabolic) challenge.
What part of speech is postchallenge?
Postchallenge is an adjective.

Words near postchallenge in the dictionary

  1. postcessation
  2. postchaetal
  3. postchaise
  4. postchaises
  5. postchalazal
  6. postchallenge
  7. postchaperonin
  8. postchemotherapeutic
  9. postchemotherapy
  10. postchiasmatic
  11. postchiasmic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: postchallenge (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “postchallenge.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/postchallenge. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.