(a.) Uttered by the mouth, or in words; spoken, not written; verbal; as, oral traditions; oral testimony; oral law.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the mouth; surrounding or lining the mouth; as, oral cilia or cirri.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
(2) Prior to oral feeding, little or no ELA was detected in stools and endotoxinemia was ascertained in only six of 45 infants (13%).
(3) Intravesical BCG is clearly superior to oral BCG, and controlled studies have demonstrated that percutaneous administration is not necessary.
(4) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(5) This time is approximately six months for the neuroleptics given orally, one month for antidepressants, and five and a half half-lives for benzodiazepines.
(6) The diffusion of Myocamicin in the prostatic tissue of patients undergoing prostatectomy after a single oral dose of 600 mg has been studied.
(7) A quantitative comparison of tissue distribution and excretion of an orally administered sublethal dose of [3H]diacetoxyscirpenol (anguidine) was made in rats and mice 90 min, 24 hr, and 7 days after treatment.
(8) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
(9) Oral administration in domestic cats causes malignant hepatomas and tumors of the esophagus and kidney.
(10) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
(11) The measurement of the intestinal metabolism of the nitrogen moiety of glutamic acid has been investigated by oral ingestion of l-[15N]glutamic acid and sampling of arterialized blood.
(12) The secretion of GH as measured by increased plasma level, in response to oral administration of 500 mg L-dopa or 30 min-infusion of arginine, was not modified by prior intravenous administration of 200 micrograms GH-releasing hormone (GHRH).
(13) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
(14) To the remaining patients who suffered from severe insomnia, 7-chloro-5-(2-chlorophenyl)-1,3-dihydro-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one (chlordesmethyldiazepam, 2 mg orally) was administered for 7 consecutive evenings.
(15) High-dose oral and intrathecal applications of viatamin B12 are also possible in the individual case.
(16) High radioactivities were observed in the digestive organs, mesenteric lymphnodes, liver, pancreas, urinary bladder, fat tissue, kidney and spleen after oral administration to rats.
(17) However, a recrudescence in both psychotic and depressive symptoms developed as plasma desipramine levels rose 4 times higher than anticipated from the oral doses prescribed.
(18) In order to develop a sampling strategy and a method for analyzing the circadian body temperature pattern, we monitored estimates of the temperature in four ways using rectal, oral, axillary and deep body temperature from the skin surface every hour for 72 consecutive hours in 10 normal control subjects.
(19) The terminal half-life averaged 12 h following intravenous and 15 h after oral administration.
(20) Cicaprost is an orally available analogue of PGI2 and has been shown to inhibit platelet aggregation in both in vitro and animal studies.
Unwritten
Definition:
(a.) Not written; not reduced to writing; oral; as, unwritten agreements.
(a.) Containing no writing; blank; as, unwritten paper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trierweiler has broken a fundamental principle of French political life, an unwritten law inherited from the Ancien Régime and perpetuated by France's revolutionary nomenklatura, that the private life – and by that I mean sex life – of a public figure must remain inviolable.
(2) Yet Leveson proposes giving his new board the power "to hear complaints whoever they come from", including from "a representative group affected by the alleged breach" of an as-yet-unwritten code.
(3) A political official, who asked not to be named, described a pact between elite white and black residents: “There’s an unwritten deal in place,” she said.
(4) Rather, there are unwritten standards taught by precept and enforced at the level of science (e.g.
(5) Academy Awards chiefs are gearing up for their annual search for the next Oscar ceremony host, with an unwritten mandate from Hollywood executives and the organisation's 6,000-plus members to halt declining audience figures.
(6) The financial interests of the city are centered in Buckhead, and the political power stays in south Atlanta.” The cooperative deal may be unwritten, but it’s not unspoken.
(7) Miliband has already broken one unwritten rule of British politics by attacking Rupert Murdoch over phone hacking, so some of his aides were worried that he should not irreversibly fall out with a second powerful title – the Daily Mail.
(8) But the sentiment, or at least, how it rebounded to England, jarred with one of football's unwritten rules.
(9) A IS FOR ABERDEEN When Alex Ferguson became manager of Aberdeen in 1978, there was an unwritten law in Scottish football: "If Celtic don't win the championship, then Rangers will."
(10) Women may not be gifted a rulebook on how to act in public with “don’t dress like a slob, don’t laugh ugly, don’t eat pizza” directives, but the celebration of behaviour that dares to go against these unwritten rules is controlling and prescriptive in its own way.
(11) In a counter-proposal Labour proposed responding to the referendum by launching a convention to discuss reforming the UK's unwritten constitution, starting in November 2015.
(12) The separation of powers in the unwritten constitution is a much vaguer and less defined concept than in the United States, where it expresses the separation between the President and Congress, while the British put their faith in the sovereignty of Parliament.
(13) And when the pages of books yet unwritten speak to generations yet unborn of this time and this place, of our Scotland today, what is the story they will tell?
(14) Surgical professionals enter into an unwritten covenant to keep an unspoken promise to discharge their unseen duties in the aseptic chain of events, with only their own consciences to monitor their responsibility to the patient.
(15) Coley says, if a curator comes to Glasgow to see you, "There's an unwritten rule that you introduce them to someone else, too."
(16) The understandings that have more or less kept the peace on the Temple Mount during the past 12 months are unwritten and fragile, and need reinforcing.
(17) "The thought that leads me to contemplate with dread the erasure of other voices, of unwritten novels, poems whispered or swallowed for fear of being overheard by the wrong people, outlawed languages flourishing underground, essayists' questions challenging authority never being posed, unstaged plays, cancelled films – that thought is a nightmare.
(18) "The great unwritten and unsaid is that residents tend to be similar ethnic origin.
(19) How Nemtsov's murder could force Putin into a big decision Read more The unwritten deal is that Kadyrov promises the nominal loyalty to Moscow of Chechnya, a region Russia fought two bitter wars to bring under its control, and is given a free hand there in return.
(20) He said the UK's unwritten constitution had made clear there were limits to the right to vote.