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vitals

[ vahyt-lz ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

plural noun

those bodily organs that are essential to life, as the brain, heart, liver, lungs, and stomach.
the essential parts of something:
the vitals of a democracy.

Origin of vitals¹

1600–10; translation of Latin vītālia; vital

She had been there as my mother and I sat with him around the clock, sleeping by his bedside, anxiously checking his vitals.

At CES this year, Intel showed off a onesie equipped with a chip that monitors vitals and movement.

Lydia also gets her vitals checked, arm rubbed with alcohol, and glove-covered hands safely inserting the needle.

After all, how hard is it really for a disgruntled patient to log into Vitals or Healthgrades and give you a one-star review?

At 7:30 p.m., the report says, paramedics called “no vitals.”

Its vitals were going—were gone, before the smallest indications of mischief appeared upon the surface.

Thus it is that brave men carry their crosses, and smile with the fox burrowing in their vitals.

The cancer of autocracy is eating into the vitals of Austria.

Thieves—grafters—have seized upon the vitals of the country.

Here is the seat of the disease which is gnawing at the vitals of the republic.

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