vitals
Americanplural noun
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those bodily organs that are essential to life, as the brain, heart, liver, lungs, and stomach.
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the essential parts of something.
the vitals of a democracy.
Etymology
Origin of vitals
1600–10; translation of Latin vītālia; vital
Example Sentences
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The next day, Maradona woke up and tore off the wires monitoring his vitals, demanding to go home.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Recent financial trends confirm healthy vitals, a stark contrast to what the stock price collapse might otherwise imply.
From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025
To be clear, mind reading isn’t one of the cyborg’s features, although part of its job as a security unit is to monitor its human clients’ vitals.
From Salon • Jul. 7, 2025
Shalom added Eubank is undergoing "precautionary checks to monitor his vitals and ensure everything is in order".
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2025
After vitals was breakfast, where the guy who was afraid of gravity and Rolling Pin Robert were gone—Humble told me and Noelle that they got discharged.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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