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Definition: Digitalis |
DigitalisNoun1. A powerful cardiac stimulant obtained from foxglove. 2. Any of several plants of the genus Digitalis. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Digitalis \Dig`i*ta"lis\, noun. [NL.: compare to the French expression digitale. So named (according to Linn[ae]us) from its finger-shaped corolla.]. (references) |
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Health | A genus of toxic herbaceous Eurasian plants of the Scrophulaceae which yield cardiotonic glycosides. The most useful are Digitalis lanata and D. purpurea. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Digitalis is another name for the common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea. It belongs to the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae (in the order Lamiales). Foxglove is a biennial, often grown as an ornamental plant due to its violet flowers. The first year of growth produces only the long basal leaves, while in the second year the erect leafy stem 2-5 feet tall develops.Digitalis purpurea extract containing cardiac glycosides for the treatment of heart conditions was first described by William Withering.
A group of pharmacologically active compounds are extracted mostly from the leaves of the second year's growth, and in pure form are referred to by common chemical names such as digitoxin or digoxin, or by brand names such as Lanoxin, or Purgoxin.
Digitalis is a classic example of a drug derived from a plant formerly used by folklorists and herbalists: herbalists have largely abandoned its use because of its narrow therapeutic index and the difficulty of determining the amount of active drug in herbal preparations.
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Synonyms: DigitalisSynonyms: digitalin (n), digitalis glycoside (n), foxglove (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Digitalis |
| English words defined with "digitalis": common foxglove ♦ Digitain, Digitalis purpurea, digitalisation, digitalization, digitalize, digitoxin, digoxin ♦ fairy bell, fingerflower, fingerroot, foxglove ♦ Lanoxin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "digitalis": Accelerated Idioventricular Rhythm, Acetyldigoxins ♦ Cardiac Glycosides, Cardiotonic Agents ♦ Deslanoside, Digitalis Glycosides, Digoxigenin ♦ Medigoxin ♦ Strophanthins ♦ Tachycardia, Ectopic Junctional. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Digitalis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (digitalis), Serbo-Croatian (digitalis), Swedish (digitalis). |
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 | Foxglove of the genus Digitalis. Credit: T. Hogervorst. |  | Digitalis purpurea, grown at Foxglove Farm by Upsher Smith. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Digitalis" by Lennart Jireland Commentary: "Owers in my garden." |
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Elbert Hubbard | Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant -- the digitalis of failure. |
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Health | Digitalis (usually in the form of digoxin) strengthens the force of the heartbeat. (references) | |
Impaired pumping function of the heart may be treated with digitalis drugs or ACE inhibitors. (references) | ||
Other drugs, such as digitalis, improve cardiac output, and drugs which increase blood pressure in shock can improve blood flow to the tissues. (references) | ||
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| "Digitalis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Digitalis" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 85.71% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.29% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
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Expressions using "digitalis": arteria digitalis ♦ digitalis glycoside ♦ Digitalis Glycosides ♦ Digitalis lanata ♦ digitalis lutea ♦ Digitalis purpurea ♦ genus Digitalis ♦ vena digitalis. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
digitalis | 113 |
digitalis purpurea | 17 |
digitalis toxicity | 10 |
digitalis foxglove | 9 |
penstemon digitalis | 9 |
digitalis plant | 5 |
digitalis mertonensis | 4 |
digitalis flower | 4 |
digitalis lanata | 4 |
digitalis husker penstemon red | 3 |
digitalis foxy | 3 |
digitalis lutea | 2 |
digitalis intoxication | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "digitalis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 洋地黄. (various references) | |
Danish | digoxin (digoxin), digitalis (purple foxglove), fingerboel (purple foxglove). (various references) | |
Dutch | digitalisachtig, digitalis (purple foxglove), vingerhoedskruid (foxglove). (various references) | |
Finnish | digitalisvalmiste. (various references) | |
French | digitalique, digitale. (various references) | |
German | Digitalis. (various references) | |
Greek | δακτυλιτιδική ουσία, δακτυλίτις η πορφυρά (purple foxglove). (various references) | |
Hungarian | digitálisz, gyűszűvirág. (various references) | |
Italian | digitale (digital, foxglove, thimble). (various references) | |
Manx | dijitalys. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | igitalisday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | digital (bot.) (foxglove), dedaleira (foxglove). (various references) | |
Russian | наперстянка (fingerflower, finger-flower, foxglove), дигиталис (foxglove). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | digitalis, pustikara, naprstak (finger stall, thimble). (various references) | |
Spanish | digital (digital). (various references) | |
Swedish | digitalis. (various references) | |
Turkish | yüksükotundan yapılan kâlp ilacı, yüksükotu (foxglove). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | дигіталіс. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Digitalis purpurea. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "digitalis": digitalises. (additional references) | |
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"Digitalis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aigialos, Dighinala, digitalas, digitalia, digitalise, digitonin, Dignitatis. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "digitalis" (pronounced di'juta"lus) |
| 4 | -a" l u s | balas, callous, callus, Gallus, malice, palace, prothallus. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-i-i-l-s-t" | |
-1 letter: digitals. | |
-2 letters: dialist, digital. | |
-3 letters: digits, distal, distil, gaslit, iliads, sialid. | |
-4 letters: adits, agist, algid, alist, dials, digit, ditas, gadis, gaits, gilds, gilts, glads, glias, iliad, litai, litas, sigil, staid, staig, tails, tidal, tsadi. | |
-5 letters: adit, aids, ails, aits, alit, alts, dags, dais, dals, dial, digs, dita, dits, gadi, gads, gait, gals, gast, gats, gids. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-i-i-i-l-s-t" | |
+1 letter: algidities, digitalins. | |
+2 letters: dialogistic, digitalises, digitalizes. | |
+3 letters: disentailing. | |
+4 letters: destabilizing, dissimilating, dissimulating, prodigalities. | |
+5 letters: disaffiliating, radiobiologist. | |
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