Oral Explained
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
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