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Vital Signs

"Vital Signs" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The signs of life that may be monitored or measured, namely pulse rate, respiratory rate, body temperature, and blood pressure.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Vital Signs" by people in this website by year, and whether "Vital Signs" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 23 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2016
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