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Those organs of the body that are essential for life.
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Those parts of a system without which it cannot function.
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Vital signs.
Examples of vitals in a Sentence
The nurse smiled again and studied the micro in her hand, which monitored his vitals.
A trained technician will hook you up and monitor your vitals throughout the night.
We definitely need your vitals but the stuff is spread among different people working independently of each other.
I felt like I was coming out of the closet to a computer when I blabbed my vitals electronically.
She clamped her mouth closed, watching him check Selyn's vitals with the urgency and diligence of a man whose life depended upon the results.
Technicians hook up sensors to monitor your vitals, including brain waves, heart rate and respiration.
I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank; and, as a necessary part of the machinery, they kept a bell, a big gun, and a fire-engine, at convenient places; and the houses were so arranged as to make the most of mankind, in lanes and fronting one another, so that every traveller had to run the gauntlet, and every man, woman, and child might get a lick at him.
I feel as if I were nearer to the vitals of the globe, for this sandy overflow is something such a foliaceous mass as the vitals of the animal body.
In addition to the vitals, note other information about an ancestor, such as military service, places of residency and occupation.
We all reluctantly entered our vitals privately, including information on baby Claire.