vitals
Nurse's first readings
Vitals are the essential organs that sustain life—heart, lungs, brain.
In medical contexts, vitals refers to vital signs: pulse, blood pressure, temperature, respiration rate.
A nurse checks your vitals during a routine visit.
The word extends to anything essential: protecting the vitals of the organization.
To strike at someone's vitals is to attack what matters most.
Arterial blood throb
- temperatureMeasured heat intensity
- systolicOf heart contraction
- diastolicHeart's filling phase
- tachycardiaExcessively fast pulse
bradycardia · hypertension · hypotension · fever · sphygmomanometer · stethoscope · oximeter · auscultation
Circulatory system's pump
- lungsRespiratory chest organs
- brainSeat of cognition
- kidneysBlood-filtering organ pair
- liverAbdominal detoxifying organ
pancreas · stomach · intestines · spleen · bladder · gallbladder · thyroid · adrenals
Of supreme importance
- indispensableUtterly required, irreplaceable
- necessaryIndispensable, cannot omit
- fundamentalForming the base
- coreCentral essential portion
key · primary · integral · imperative · basic · central · critical · paramount
Statistical population characteristics
- censusOfficial population count
- populationAll inhabitants combined
- mortalityState of eventual death
- morbidityDisease occurrence rate
epidemiology · incidence · prevalence · surveillance · reporting
pulse
Arterial blood throb
- temperatureMeasured heat intensity
- systolicOf heart contraction
- diastolicHeart's filling phase
tachycardia · bradycardia · hypertension · hypotension · fever · sphygmomanometer · stethoscope · oximeter · auscultation · thermometer
heart
Circulatory system's pump
liver · pancreas · stomach · intestines · spleen · bladder · gallbladder · thyroid · adrenals · ovaries
crucial
Of supreme importance
- indispensableUtterly required, irreplaceable
- necessaryIndispensable, cannot omit
- fundamentalForming the base
core · key · primary · integral · imperative · basic · central · critical · paramount · requisite
demographics
Statistical population characteristics
- censusOfficial population count
- populationAll inhabitants combined
- mortalityState of eventual death
morbidity · epidemiology · incidence · prevalence · surveillance · reporting
- nursingnurse, nursing, nurses, RN, LPN
- surgerysurgery, surgeon, surgeons, operation, incision
- nursing documentationnursing notes, charting, care plans, progress notes, patient charts
- healthcaredoctors, nurses, hospitals, hospital, clinic
- medicinedoctor, doctors, hospital, medicine, surgery
- Emergency RoomER doctor, ER nurse, triage nurse, trauma bay, gurney
vitalsflatline
Show no heartbeat
cardiac arrest · asystole · clinical death · rigor mortis · time of death
vitalsdiagnoses
Medical condition determinations
prognosis · medical history · lab results · pathology · etiology
vitalstrivialities
Insignificant matters
peripherals · incidentals · inessentials · minutiae · superfluities
- vitamin CEssential water-soluble antioxidant
- vitamin D deficiencyInadequate sunshine hormone levels
- vital signsMeasurable life indicators
- vitamin DCalcium absorption enabler
- vital organsStructures essential for survival
- vitamin ASight-supporting micronutrient
vital, vitality, vitamin, revitalize, vitalize, vitally, vitalizing, nonvital, vitalized