oral
口述,口服,口腔,口头
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- : uttered by the mouth; spoken: oral testimony.
- : of, using, or transmitted by speech: oral methods of language teaching; oral traditions.
- : of, relating to, or involving the mouth: the oral cavity.
- : done, taken, or administered through the mouth: an oral dose of medicine.
- : Phonetics. articulated with none of the voice issuing through the nose, as the normal English vowels and the consonants b and v.
- : Psychoanalysis. of or relating to the earliest phase of infantile psychosexual development, lasting from birth to one year of age or longer, during which pleasure is obtained from eating, sucking, and biting.of or relating to the sublimation of feelings experienced during the oral stage of childhood: oral anxiety.of or relating to gratification by stimulation of the lips or membranes of the mouth, as in sucking, eating, or talking
- : Zoology. pertaining to that surface of polyps and marine animals that contains the mouth and tentacles.
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The Supreme Court’s first oral arguments in its new term will be held by remote teleconference because of the continued threat posed by the coronavirus pandemic, the justices announced Wednesday.
Sabin’s so-called attenuated strains became the famous oral polio vaccine given on a sugar cube to billions of children.
There’s little doubt that in this process, the virus also spreads to the body’s oral cavity.
In a typical LAMP assay, a patient’s nasal or oral swab sample is mixed with enzymes and specially designed DNA fragments, then heated to 65° Celsius to copy the viral RNA to DNA and produce many more DNA copies.
It’s transmitted through the fecal-oral route, meaning that humans consume food that has contaminated feces on it.
My doctor put me on oral contraceptives to induce a period, figuring it would help build bone.
The second major split between the capital and the court occurred over oral care.
“He was attempting to force me into oral sex,” Ruehli told Philadelphia Magazine.
Also, when Nelson died and Hugh Morrow did his own oral history project and talked to about 75 Rockefeller associates.
The papers report that J.W. was too afraid to resist his command for her to perform oral sex on him.
These oral inanities only served to make Lyn give me the benefit of a look of amused wonder.