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vital function

American  

noun

Physiology.
  1. any function of the body that is essential for life.


Etymology

Origin of vital function

First recorded in 1795–1805

Example Sentences

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Memory serves a vital function, enabling us to learn from new experiences and update existing knowledge.

From Science Daily • Feb. 15, 2024

With "The McCartney Legacy," the authors perform a vital function, affording readers with the first in-depth study of McCartney's transition from Beatle Paul into solo superstardom.

From Salon • Dec. 11, 2022

He acknowledged that the port plays a vital function, “but at what cost?”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 24, 2021

But she had spent so much time on the project in hand that she had neglected another vital function of the CEO role - winning new orders for the firm.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2021

He would strive in vain to modulate the remote and transient music which he sometimes hears, since his song is a vital function like breathing, and an integral result like weight.

From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David

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