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Definition of Digitalis
1. Noun. A powerful cardiac stimulant obtained from foxglove.
Specialized synonyms: Digitoxin, Digoxin, Lanoxin
Generic synonyms: Cardiac Glucoside, Cardiac Glycoside
Derivative terms: Digitalize
2. Noun. Any of several plants of the genus Digitalis.
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Digitalis
Specialized synonyms: Common Foxglove, Digitalis Purpurea, Fairy Bell, Finger-flower, Finger-root, Fingerflower, Fingerroot, Digitalis Lutea, Straw Foxglove, Yellow Foxglove
Definition of Digitalis
1. n. A genus of plants including the foxglove.
Definition of Digitalis
1. Noun. A genus of herbaceous plants of the ''Scrophulariaceae'' family, including the foxglove, ''Digitalis purpurea''. ¹
2. Noun. A medical extract of ''Digitalis purpurea'' prescribed for heart failure etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Digitalis
1. [n -TALISES]
Medical Definition of Digitalis
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Digitalis
Literary usage of Digitalis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1897)
"This paper is based upon a series of experiments designed to determine whether
digitalis when administered for a considerable period of time actually ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"IN general practice, very commonly the physician fails to get thoroughly satisfactory
results from the use of digitalis. As cardiac patients come to the ..."
3. Journal of the American Medical Association by American Medical Association (1890)
"This patient died while sitting on the edge of his bed. is one remedy to which
we at last arrive. This is digitalis. It is said that digitalis is proper to ..."
4. A Manual of pharmacology and its applications to therapeutics and toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"The second important factor in the usefulness of digitalis is the ... It must
not be forgotten that overdosage of digitalis may provoke any of the clinical ..."
5. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1897)
"This research was based upon the clinical fact that nearly always when a patient
has had marked valvular disease of the heart and takes digitalis for a ..."
6. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1922)
"They certainly justify a confident use of digitalis in such cases, even though
the pulse rate may not be rapid. Even when the pulse rate is not changed, ..."
7. The Lancet (1898)
"There is no drug eo familiar to us as digitalis and there is no one drug which
has added so many years to the sum of human life. ..."
8. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1890)
"digitalis as a Cardiac Food.—In a lecture delivered at the University of Pennsylvania
Professor HC Wood most thoroughly reviewed the therapeutics of ..."
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