digitalis

IPA: dɪdʒʌtˈæɫʌs

Any plant of the genus Digitalis (herbaceous plants of the Plantaginaceae family, including the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea).
(medicine) A medical extract of Digitalis purpurea prescribed for heart failure etc.

Examples of "digitalis" in Sentences

By 1785 Withering’s infusion now called digitalis was in general use.
Then we come to the other, the digitalis, which is equally as beautiful.
The word digitalis refers likewise to the digits, or fingers of a gauntlet.
Many of their herb remedies, such as digitalis (from foxglove) and atropine (from belladonna) are still in use today.
Heart tonics and stimulants such as digitalis, strychnine and alcohol should be administered when the pulse beats weaken.
It may be due to depression of the central nervous system, as in dumminess, or be the result of the administration of drugs, such as digitalis or strophantus.
An all natural extract of the foxglove plant similar to an all natural extract of the stevia plant is digitalis, which is lethal if consumed in all but the most minute amounts.
Substances known to inhibit sodium/potassium transport are certain digitalis alkaloids, e.g. oubain, and Skou showed that oubain interferes in the enzyme's activation by sodium.
At the time the court concluded that the nurse had poisoned the babies with a drug used to treat heart conditions, digoxin, also known as digitalis, an extract from the foxglove plant.