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The word oral may refer to:
As an adjective:
- the mouth, the first portion of the alimentary canal that receives food and saliva
- speech communication as opposed to writing
- oral administration of medicines
- oral schools, schools that use oralism to teach the deaf
- oral stage, Sigmund Freud's name for a child's development during the first 0 to 18 months of life, in which an infant's pleasure centers are in the mouth
- oral sex, sexual activity involving the stimulation of the genitalia of a sex partner by the use of the mouth, tongue, teeth or throat
Other
- 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
- Oral Roberts (1918–2009), American televangelist
- Oral Roberts University, named after the televangelist
- Oral submucous fibrosis, a chronic debilitating disease of the oral cavity characterized by inflammation and progressive fibrosis of the submucosal tissues
- Oral rehydration therapy, a simple treatment for dehydration associated with diarrhea, particularly gastroenteritis or gastroenteropathy
- Oral-B, a brand of oral hygiene products
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