digitalin

[ dij-i-tal-in, -tey-lin ]

/ ˌdɪdʒ ɪˈtæl ɪn, -ˈteɪ lɪn /

noun Pharmacology.

a glucoside obtained from digitalis.

any of several extracts of mixtures of glucosides obtained from digitalis.

Nearby words

digital video, digital video recorder, digital videocassette, digital wallet, digital watch, digitalin, digitalis, digitalism, digitalization, digitalize, digitate

Origin of digitalin

First recorded in 1830–40; digital(is) + -in²

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Examples from the Web for digitalin

Give chloride of ammonium in 30 grain doses to prevent delirium; strychnine or digitalin hypodermically.
Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology|W. G. Aitchison Robertson
The minutest trace of digitalin moistened with sulphuric and treated with bromine vapour gives a rose colour, turning to mauve.
Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology|W. G. Aitchison Robertson
The effects on animals are identical with those of digitalin.
Poisons: Their Effects and Detection|Alexander Wynter Blyth
It is a very powerful, hence very poisonous drug, its action being due to an active principle known as digitalin.
Birds and all Nature, Vol. VII, No. 4, April 1900|Various

The benzene dissolves digitalein, and the chloroform, digitalin and digitoxin.
Poisons: Their Effects and Detection|Alexander Wynter Blyth

British Dictionary definitions for digitalin

digitalin

/ (ˌdɪdʒɪˈteɪlɪn) /

noun

a poisonous amorphous crystalline mixture of glycosides extracted from digitalis leaves and formerly used in treating heart disease

Word Origin for digitalin

C19: from digital (is) + -in

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Medicine definitions for digitalin

digitalin

[ dĭj′ĭ-tăl′ĭn, -tā′lĭn ]

n.

A mixture of glycosides obtained from the leaves and seeds of the common foxglove and used as a cardiotonic.