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What are vital signs?

What are vital signs? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (medicine) A set of measurements of a patient's condition taken regularly to assess the state of bodily functions: CSM, skin signs, lung sounds, temperature, pulse, blood pressure and respiration.
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The sequential compression devices are disconnected, and the patient's vital signs are assessed.
Historically, vital signs were used to determine the level of sedation in critically ill patients.
The system allows them to transmit patients' vital signs from an ambulance to hospital so staff could make lifesaving decisions.
Though his vital signs returned to normal, the abiding fear was that oxygen deprivation had caused permanent kidney or brain damage.
Your vital signs are body temperature, blood pressure and heart and respiration rates.
It is these changes in vital signs and body functions that constitute the symptoms and signs of disease.

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