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vitals

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vi·tals  (vtlz)
pl.n.
1. The vital body organs.
2. The parts essential to continued functioning, as of a system.
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Noun1.vitalsvitals - a bodily organ that is essential for life
vital organ
organ - a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function


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Thus he drew his misery around him like a regal mantle, and looked down triumphantly upon those whose vitals nourished no deadly monster.
Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Attached to this back-bone, for something less than a third of its length, was the mighty circular basket of ribs which once enclosed his vitals.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Ghak headed the strange procession, then came Perry, followed by Hooja, while I brought up the rear, after admonishing Hooja that I had so arranged my sword that I could thrust it through the head of my disguise into his vitals were he to show any indication of faltering.
At the Earth's Core by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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