VITALS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vitals mean? 

• VITALS (noun)
  The noun VITALS has 1 sense:

1. a bodily organ that is essential for life

  Familiarity information: VITALS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VITALS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bodily organ that is essential for life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

vital organ; vitals

Hypernyms ("vitals" is a kind of...):

organ (a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function)

 Context examples 

St. John looks quiet, Jane; but he hides a fever in his vitals.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

If I hesitated, she was taken with that wonderful disorder which was always lying in ambush in her system, ready, at the shortest notice, to prey upon her vitals.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

No pins were ever stuck into their cotton vitals, no harsh words or blows were ever given them, no neglect ever saddened the heart of the most repulsive, but all were fed and clothed, nursed and caressed with an affection which never failed.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

If I do go with him—if I do make the sacrifice he urges, I will make it absolutely: I will throw all on the altar—heart, vitals, the entire victim.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I was experiencing an ordeal: a hand of fiery iron grasped my vitals.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)