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What does digitoxin mean?

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Noun
  1. (organic chemistry) A toxic cardiac glycoside, obtained from digitalis, related to cardenolide.
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Digoxin and digitoxin are commonly prescribed to increase the strength of heart contraction.
Although digitoxin is used widely in Europe, the cardiac glycoside digoxin is widely used in the United States.
An instructive case of poisoning by digitoxin occurred in the person of Dr. Koppe, in the course of some experiments on the drug.
Digitalis purpurea became known as digitoxin and later, digoxin was marketed.
Like other members of genus Digitalis, big-flowered foxglove is highly poisonous due to the glycosides digitoxin and digitalein.
The most powerful is digitoxin C34H54O11, an extremely poisonous and cumulative drug, insoluble in water.

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