Definition of vital

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Vital (a.) Being the seat of life; being that on which life depends; mortal.

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Autocracy :: Autocracy (n.) The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle..
Shock :: Shock (n.) A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like..
Od :: Od (n.) An alleged force or natural power, supposed, by Reichenbach and others, to produce the phenomena of mesmerism, and to be developed by various agencies, as by magnets, heat, light, chemical or vital action, etc.; -- called also odyle or the odylic force..
Gangrene :: Gangrene (n.) A term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality; but now applied to mortification of the soft parts in any stage.
Exist :: Exist (v. i.) To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land..
Astheny :: Astheny (n.) Want or loss of strength; debility; diminution of the vital forces.
Depressant :: Depressant (n.) An agent or remedy which lowers the vital powers.
Excitant :: Excitant (n.) An agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant..
Nature :: Nature (n.) Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life.
Protoplasm :: Protoplasm (n.) The viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called physical basis of life; the original cell substance, cytoplasm, cytoblastema, bioplasm sarcode, etc..
Stail :: Stahlianism (n.) The Stahlian theoru, that every vital action is function or operation of the soul..
Physiophyly :: Physiophyly (n.) The tribal history of the functions, or the history of the paleontological development of vital activities, -- being a branch of phylogeny. See Morphophyly..
Disbud :: Disbud (v.) To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree..
Generate :: Generate (v. t.) To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause..
Passive :: Passive (a.) Designating certain morbid conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues..
Adynamic :: Adynamic (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak..
Disease :: Disease (n.) An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc..
Stimulated :: Stimulant (n.) An agent which produces a temporary increase of vital activity in the organism, or in any of its parts; -- sometimes used without qualification to signify an alcoholic beverage used as a stimulant..
Trance :: Trance (n.) A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible..
Biostatistics :: Biostatistics (n.) Vital statistics.
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