Orally

[awr-uh l, ohr-] /ˈɔr əl, ˈoʊr-/

adjective
1.
uttered by the mouth; spoken:
oral testimony.
2.
of, using, or transmitted by speech:
oral methods of language teaching; oral traditions.
3.
of, relating to, or involving the mouth:
the oral cavity.
4.
done, taken, or administered through the mouth:
an oral dose of medicine.
5.
Phonetics. articulated with none of the voice issuing through the nose, as the normal English vowels and the consonants b and v.
6.
Psychoanalysis.

7.
Zoology. pertaining to that surface of polyps and marine animals that contains the mouth and tentacles.
noun
8.
an oral examination in a school, college, or university, given especially to a candidate for an advanced degree.
/ˈɔːrəl; ˈɒrəl/
adjective
1.
spoken or verbal: an oral agreement
2.
relating to, affecting, or for use in the mouth: an oral thermometer
3.
of or relating to the surface of an animal, such as a jellyfish, on which the mouth is situated
4.
denoting a drug to be taken by mouth: an oral contraceptive Compare parenteral
5.
of, relating to, or using spoken words
6.
(phonetics) pronounced with the soft palate in a raised position completely closing the nasal cavity and allowing air to pass out only through the mouth
7.
(psychoanal)

noun
8.
an examination in which the questions and answers are spoken rather than written
adj.

1620s, from Late Latin oralis, from Latin os (genitive oris) “mouth, opening, face, entrance,” from PIE *os-/*ous- “mouth” (cf. Sanskrit asan “mouth,” asyam “mouth, opening,” Avestan ah-, Hittite aish, Middle Irish a “mouth,” Old Norse oss “mouth of a river,” Old English or “beginning, origin, front”). Psychological meaning “of the mouth as the focus of infantile sexual energy” (e.g. oral fixation) is from 1910. The sexual sense is first recorded 1948, in Kinsey. As a noun, “oral examination,” attested from 1876. Related: Orally (c.1600); orality.

oral o·ral (ôr’əl)
adj.

o’ral·ly adv.
oral
(ôr’əl)
Relating to or involving the mouth.