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digitalis | digitalins |

As a proper noun digitalis

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As a noun digitalins is

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digitalis

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A genus of herbaceous plants of the Plantaginaceae family, including the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea .
  • * James Moore, Gardens of the Misses Garnier'' in 1834 , ''The Gardener’s Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement , volume 19, page 210:
  • 11. Delphiniums and digitalises .
  • * 1836 , Joseph Harrison, The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists’ Magazine , volume 4, page 133:
  • At the Medico-Botanical Society on Tuesday, Dr. Morries, made some some observations on opium, digitales , conium, and hyoscyamus, and exhibited specimens of oils obtained from the latter plants.
  • * 1903 , American Florist , volume 19, page 555:
  • Polemoniums of various species, aubretias, dwarf phloxes, delphiniums, digitalises , gerums, erigerons and a number of other things have bloomed a second time
  • A medical extract of Digitalis purpurea prescribed for heart failure etc.
  • * 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 188:
  • ‘You very nearly died. I had to give you digitalis three times.’
  • * 2001 , Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2001, p. 25:
  • The ancient remedy digitalis , extracted from the foxglove plant, for example, acts by blocking sodium channels in heart muscle, preventing potentially dangerous overactivity.

    digitalins

    English

    Noun

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