If the location of your elbow swelling is on the back of your elbow, is tender and hot to the touch and is red in color, there is a good chance you are suffering from bursitis. What that means is that you have a small fluid filled sac called the âbursaâ that is located near your elbow joint that has become inflamed.
(ËvaÉªtÉl) adj. 1. (Biology) essential to maintain life: the lungs perform a vital function. 2. forceful, energetic, or lively: a vital person. 3. (Biology) of, relating to, having, or displaying life: a vital organism. 4. indispensable or essential: books vital to this study. 5. of great importance; decisive: a vital game.
Medical Definition of vitalism. 1  1: a doctrine that the functions of a living organism are due to a vital principle distinct from physicochemical forces. 2  2: a doctrine that the processes of life are not explicable by the laws of physics and chemistry alone and that life is in some part self-determining.