oral phase


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(psychoanalysis) the first sexual and social stage of an infant's development

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According to the SOMA and FEES assessments, the oral phase of swallowing was abnormal in all 9 infants.
Similar to the Court of Justice, proceedings before the General Court generally have a written and oral phase, and the oral phase is usually a public hearing.
(3) The oral phase is controlled primarily by cortical and subcortical areas.
Patients were then started on a second 24-week course of the luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) agonist, after which they were crossed over to the opposite agent; that is, patients who had previously been on placebo were switched to thalidomide, and vice versa (oral phase B).
The oral phase of the swallow is voluntary and begins with the preparation of the bolus, which could include sucking, biting, chewing, and overall preparing and organizing the bolus to be swallowed.
Oral phase: Seventy-two hours after iron administration, all birds were weighed and anesthetized with isoflurane delivered by face mask.
The drug is currently in a Phase IIa trial for patients with T-cell leukemia and a combination IV and oral Phase I pharmacokinetic trial in healthy volunteers.
A trend toward significance also was seen during the oral phase.
Henaut criticizes the sloppy manner in which the hypothesis of 'oral tradition' has been used in gospel studies, beginning with the form critics, to explain discrepancies among parallel texts and, especially, to work back to an 'oral phase' of transmission, ostensibly closer to the historical Jesus than written traditions.
The experience of severance will be one of the fundamental events in early childhood, at least in the oral phase. In this phase, the necessary aggression that this implies will provide individuals with the model for aggressive relationships in life.
The compound is currently being investigated in an oral Phase I/II clinical study in myelofibrosis patients at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, New York.