vitals

n. vital or essential organs (heart, lungs, liver and brain)

This article is about the 2002 novel. For other uses, see Vital Vitals is a 2002 science fiction/techno-thriller novel written by Greg Bear.It centres on a scientist who wishes to cheat death. He gets his funding from what he calls "angels" - rich businessmen who are keen to live a thousand years. However, on a fact-finding exploration in a small submarine, his pilot goes beserk, start spouting gibberish, and tries to kill him. He survives, but when he gets back to the ship, he finds that a member of the crew also went mad and started spouting gibberish, killing more scientists onboard the ship. The rest of the crew is distant from him, on the grounds of what he calls bad mojo. He is disowned by the plutocrat in question.
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Noun
1. a bodily organ that is essential for life
(synonym) vital organ
(hypernym) organ

(n. pl.)
Organs that are necessary for life; more especially, the heart, lungs, and brain.
  

(n. pl.)
Fig.: The part essential to the life or health of anything; as, the vitals of a state.
  

Synonyms and related words:
abdomen, anus, appendix, blind gut, bosom, bowels, brain, breast, cecum, center, center of life, colon, core, deepest recesses, duodenum, endocardium, entrails, esoteric reality, foregut, giblets, gizzard, guts, heart, heart of hearts, hindgut, inmost heart, inmost soul, innards, inner, inner landscape, inner life, inner man, inner mechanism, inner nature, inner recess, inner self, inside, insides, interior, interior man, intern, internal, internals, intestine, intrados, inward, inwards, jejunum, kidney, kishkes, large intestine, liver, liver and lights, lung, midgut, nerve center, penetralia, perineum, pump, pylorus, quick, recesses, rectum, secret heart, secret place, secret places, small intestine, soul, spirit, spleen, stomach, ticker, tripes, true being, true inwardness, vermiform appendix, viscera, vital center, vital principle, works