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[vahyt-lz]

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plural noun

1.

those bodily organs that are essential to life, as the brain, heart, liver, lungs, and stomach.

2.

the essential parts of something: the vitals of a democracy.

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Origin:
1600–10; translation of Latin vītālia; see vital

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Word Origin & History

vitals

"organs of the body essential to life," c.1600, from the adj. vital taken as a noun.

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Medical Dictionary

vitals vi·tals (vīt'lz)
pl.n.

The vital body organs.
The parts that are essential to continued functioning, as of a system.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms

vitals
vital signs (pulse rate, temperature, respiratory rate)

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"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.... For the most part I escaped wonderfully from these dangers, either by proceeding at once boldly and without deliberation to the goal, as is recommended to those who run the gauntlet, or by keeping my thoughts on high things, like Orpheus, who, "loudly singing the praises of the gods to his lyre, drowned the voices of the Sirens, and kept out of danger." Sometimes I bolted suddenly, and nobody could tell my whereabouts, for I did not stand much about gracefulness, and never hesitated at a gap in a fence. I was even accustomed to make an irruption into some houses, where I was well entertained, and after learning the kernels and the very last sieveful of news,—what had subsided, the prospects of war and peace, and whether the world was likely to hold together much longer,—I was let out through the rear avenues, and so escaped to the woods again."

-Henry David Thoreau

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