vital flame, soul, spirit.
respiration, wind; breath of life, breath of one's nostrils;
oxygen, air.
[devices to sustain respiration] respirator, artificial
respirator, heart and lung machine, iron lung; medical devices &c 662.
lifeblood; Archeus†; existence &c 1.
vivification; vital force; vitalization; revivification &c 163;
Prometheus; life to come &c (destiny) 152.
[Science of life] physiology, biology; animal ecology.
nourishment, staff of life &c (food) 298.
genetics, heredity, inheritance, evolution, natural selection,
reproduction (production) 161.
microbe, aerobe, anaerobe, facultative anaerobe, obligate aerobe,
obligate anaerobe, halophile [Micro.], methanogen [Micro.],
archaebacteria [Micro.], microaerophile [Micro.].
animal &c 366; vegetable &c 367.
artificial life, robot, robotics, artificial intelligence.
[vital signs] breathing, breathing rate, heartbeat, pulse,
temperature.
preservation of life, healing (medicine) 662.
V. be alive &c adj.; live, breathe, respire; subsist &c (exist) 1; walk
the earth, strut and fret one's hour upon the stage [Macbeth]; be
spared.
see the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw
breath, fetch the breath of life, draw the breath of life; quicken;
revive; come to life.
give birth to &c (produce) 161; bring to life, put into life,
vitalize; vivify, vivificate†; reanimate &c (restore) 660; keep alive,
keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door; support life.
hive nine lives like a cat.
Adj. living, alive; in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living;
on this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animated;
animative†; lively &c (active) 682; all alive and kicking; tenacious of
life; full of life, yeasty.
vital, vitalic†; vivifying, vivified, &c v.; viable, zoetic†;
Promethean.
Adv. vivendi causa [Lat.].
Phr. atqui vivere militare est [Lat.] [Seneca]; non est vivere sed
valere vita [Lat.] [Marial].