vital signs

The Best Picture nominees, while wildly different in content and tone, share certain vital signs.

Licensed practical nurses are essentially menial hospital workers who collect vital signs, change bedpans, and bathe patients.

Suppose the next generation of gizmos not only track those vital signs but warn the crew when they see an imminent flat-liner?

Swiftly and clinically Dal checked the vital signs as the old man watched him.

What were those “vital signs,” those proofs indubitable to Milton that he had the art and faculty of a poet?

He knew this, he says, by “certain vital signs” discernible in what he had already written.