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 receives food and saliva
  • Speech communication, or verbal communication, as opposed to writing
  • Oral administration of medicines
  • 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, 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

Places

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

Other uses

• Oral Roberts (1918–2009), American televangelist
• Oral Roberts University, named after the televangelist

See also

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