vitals

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪtəlz/

vitals pl (plural only)

1. (plural only) Those organs of the body that are essential for life.
2. (plural only, figuratively) Those parts of a system without which it cannot function.
3. (medicine, plural only) Vital signs.

• 1827, Ann Hasseltine Judson, An account of the American Baptist mission to the Burman empire:

  they were ripped open from the lowest to the highest extremity of the stomach, and their vitals and part of their bowels were hanging out

• 2003 David R Woodward - Trial by Friendship: Anglo-American Relations, 1917-1918

  This final victory can only be had by reaching the vitals of Germany and by destroying her armed forces.

• 1991, Suzy Szasz, Living With It: Why You Don't Have to Be Healthy to Be Happy:

  At least once an hour a nurse came into the room, either to check on me or my roommate, or to take vitals

• gnaw someone's vitals
• stap my vitals

• vistal

vitals

1. plural of vital