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Definition of: vital
(vīt′l) adjective
1. Pertaining to life.
2. Essential to or supporting life.
3. Affecting life: fatal to life: a vital error or wound.
4. Necessary to existence or continuance; necessary; essential; life–sustaining.
5. Relating to the facts of life, as births, deaths, etc.: vital statistics. [<OF <L vitalis <vita life]
—vi′tal·ly adverb
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