Oral

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The word oral may refer to:

Relating to the mouth

• Relating to the mouth, the first portion of the alimentary canal that primarily receives food and liquid
  • Oral administration of medicines
  • Oral examination (also known as an oral exam or oral test), a practice in many schools and disciplines in which an examiner poses questions to the student in spoken form
  • Oral hygiene, practices involved in cleaning the mouth and preventing disease
  • Oral medication
  • Oral rehydration therapy, a simple treatment for dehydration associated with diarrhea
  • Oral sex, sexual activity involving the stimulation of genitalia by use of the mouth, tongue, teeth or throat.
  • Oral stage, a human development phase in Freudian developmental psychology
  • Oral tradition, cultural material and tradition transmitted orally from one generation to another
  • Oralism, the education of deaf students through oral language by using lip reading, and mimicking of mouth shapes and breathing patterns
  • Speech communication, also known as oral communication or verbal communication, as opposed to writing

Places

• Oral, Kazakhstan, a city
• Oral, South Dakota, United States
• Royaume d'Oral, 18th-century French name for the Principality of Bethio on the Senegal River in West Africa
• Oral Roberts University, named after the televangelist

People

• Oral (name), list of people with the name

Music

• "Oral" (song), 2023 song by Björk and Rosalía

See also

• Aural
• Ora (disambiguation)
• Orel (disambiguation)
• Ural (disambiguation)

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