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Organ vs Vitals - What's the difference?

organ | vitals |

As nouns the difference between organ and vitals

is that organ is a largest part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions while vitals is those organs of the body that are essential for life.

As a verb organ

is to supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.

organ

English

(wikipedia organ) (Pipe organ)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A largest part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
  • (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
  • (musical instruments) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ , the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
  • An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
  • A species of cactus ().
  • (slang) The penis.
  • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * barrel organ * house organ * internal organ * mouth organ * pipe organ * sense organ * sex organ * storage organ * swell organ * vital organ

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.
  • * Bishop Mannyngham
  • Thou art elemented and organed for other apprehensions.

    Anagrams

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    vitals

    English

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • (plurale tantum) Those organs of the body that are essential for life.
  • (plurale tantum, figuratively) Those parts of a system without which it cannot function.
  • (medicine, plurale tantum) vital signs
  • Quotations

    *1827 Ann Hasseltine Judson - An account of the American Baptist mission to the Burman empire *:they were ripped open from the lowest to the highest extremity of the stomach, and their vitals and part of their bowels were hanging out *2003 David R Woodward - Trial by Friendship: Anglo-American Relations, 1917-1918 *:This final victory can only be had by reaching the vitals of Germany and by destroying her armed forces. *1991 Suzy Szasz - Living With It: Why You Don't Have to Be Healthy to Be Happy *:At least once an hour a nurse came into the room, either to check on me or my roommate, or to take vitals

    Derived terms

    * stap my vitals