different between digitalis vs digoxin

English

Etymology

Modern Latin, from Latin digit?lis (“of the fingers”) (named in reference to the German common name for the plant, Fingerhut (“thimble”)). Doublet of digital.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?d???t??l?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d?d???tæl?s/, /d?d???te?l?s/

Noun

digitalis (countable and uncountable, plural digitalises)

1. Any plant of the genus Digitalis (herbaceous plants of the Plantaginaceae family, including the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea).
   • 1834, James Moore, Gardens of the Misses Garnier in The Gardener’s Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, volume 19 (1834), 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 […]

2. 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.

Translations

References

• “digitalis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Finnish

Noun

digitalis

1. digitalis (medical extract)

Declension

Latin

Etymology

digitus (“finger, toe”) +? -?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /di.?i?ta?.lis/, [d?????t?ä?l?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.d??i?ta.lis/, [d?id??i?t???lis]

Adjective

digit?lis (neuter digit?le); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. Of or belonging to the finger

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Related terms

Descendants

References

• digitalis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• digitalis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• digitalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

1930s, contracted from digitoxin, from Digitalis lanata +? toxin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??d??k.s?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??d??k.s?n/, /d????k.s?n/
• Rhymes: -?ks?n

Noun

digoxin (countable and uncountable, plural digoxins)

1. (biochemistry, pharmacology) A poisonous compound present in the foxglove (Digitalis lanata) and other plants. It is a steroid glycoside and is used in small doses as a cardiac stimulant.

Synonyms

• digitalis

Translations

References

• “digoxin”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “digoxin”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).