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orally

orally

4 3.2
By mouth when taking medicine
  • adverb
  • /ˈɔrəli/
  • Specialized
translation icon : por vía oral
  • Administration is individual, and items are presented orally with accompanying pictures.
  • administered orally
  • taken orally
  • orally twice a day

On the other hand, estrogen and progesterone can be absorbed orally, hence the pill.

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Examples

  • What we have, then, are successive elaborations of the earliest story, which undoubtedly circulated orally at first.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Later, it was stated that the drug was a form of interferon alfa given orally in very low doses.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Each workshop closes with some students orally sharing their current work with the class.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Then, too, a certain passage will need to be read orally to validate an answer to a question.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Furthermore, the teacher may wish to have a student read orally to note a student's justification for an answer.

    Academic text (2015)
  • When the living twin was given medicine orally, the dead sibling received the same medicine, and so on.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Missed words were practiced orally and in written form until they were mastered.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Many of the questionnaires were administered orally and recorded on an audio tape.

    Academic text (1993)
  • You can begin to taper off once he starts accepting fluids orally.

  • The doctor recommended that the medicine be taken orally to ensure fast absorption into the bloodstream.

Synonyms

peroral
vsorally
  • Specialized
7.3

Taken through the mouth, for example a medicine you swallow

is the general nontechnical way to say taken by mouth

Antonyms

intravenously
  • Specialized
6 6.5

A nurse puts medicine or fluid into a vein using a needle

How Nasal

nasally
3 6.0
orally
  • Specialized
4 3.2

Surface Forms

orally positive

Morphology

orally = oral (transparent) = oral + ly

The adverb is formed from 'oral' (relating to the mouth) with the productive '-ly' adverbial suffix, yielding 'by mouth'.

Etymology

Orally comes from a Latin root meaning 'mouth', written os/oris, and the same root is in oral. So when medicine is taken orally, it means it is taken 'by mouth'.