"meal marker" meaning in All languages combined

See meal marker on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: meal markers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} meal marker (plural meal markers)
  1. (medicine) A substance added to food to allow the measurement of how quickly it passes through the segments of the digestive tract. Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-meal_marker-en-noun-e3hQxhGS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: medicine, sciences

Inflected forms

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