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Vital Sign

Definition: Vital Sign

Vital Sign

Noun

1. Sign of life; usually an indicator of a person's general physical condition; "he was still alive but his vital signs were weak".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Non-Fiction Usage: Vital Sign

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Bahrain

For example, the Ministry is looking to replace intensive critical equipment such as patient vital sign monitors, infant incubators, ventilators, infusion pumps etc.. Preparation is also under way for the acquisition of a second deep X-ray therapy machine. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vital Sign

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

vital sign

162

vital sign monitor

20

vital sign inc

18

vital sign monitoring

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Vital Sign

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-i-i-l-n-s-t-v"

-1 letter: tailings, vigilant.

-2 letters: intagli, invital, lasting, listing, livings, nilgais, sailing, salting, salving, silting, slating, slaving, staling, staving, tailing, tilings, vailing, vialing, visaing.

-3 letters: ailing, algins, aligns, anvils, gainst, gaslit, giants, glints, instal, instil, isatin, isling, lasing, laving, liangs, ligans, lingas, living, nilgai, sating, saving, signal, silvan, siting, tiling, vigils, vinals, vising, vitals.

-4 letters: agist.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-i-i-l-n-s-t-v"
 

+1 letter: salivating, vigilantes, vitalising.

 

+2 letters: invigilates, levigations, vigilantism, virginalist.

 

+3 letters: evangelistic, invigilators, revitalising, trivialising, vesiculating, vigilantisms, virginalists, volatilising.

 

+4 letters: invigilations, misevaluating.

 

+5 letters: galvanizations, navigabilities, vulgarizations, vulvovaginitis.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Vital Sign


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 69 74 61 6C      53 69 67 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01101001 01110100 01100001 01101100 00100000 01010011 01101001 01100111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#105 &#116 &#97 &#108 &#32 &#83 &#105 &#103 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0069 0074 0061 006C      0053 0069 0067 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5675866778253757380

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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