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• vital capacity (noun)
  1. usually tested with a spirometer the maximum amount of air that can be exhaled after a maximum inhalation ; used to determine the condition of lung tissue
• vital force (noun)
  1. not physical or chemical biology a hypothetical force once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms
• vital organ (noun)
  1. a part of your body that is necessary to keep you alive, for example your heart and lungs
• vital principle (noun)
  1. a hypothetical force to which the functions and qualities peculiar to living things are sometimes ascribed
• vital sign (noun)
  1. sign of life; usually an indicator of a person's general physical condition
• vital statistics (noun)
  1. figures giving information about the number of births, deaths, marriages etc within a population
  2. British English informal a woman's chest, waist, and HIP measurements
• élan vital (noun)
  1. not physical or chemical biology a hypothetical force once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms
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