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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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Although digitoxin is used widely in Europe, the cardiac glycoside digoxin is widely used in the United States.
Digitalin and digitoxin are par excellence the poisonous principles of the plant.
The benzene dissolves digitalein, and the chloroform, digitalin and digitoxin.
This dose can be used in patients who are in acute distress or for whom a serum digoxin or digitoxin concentration is not available.
For digitoxin, the total body load will be approximately equal to the amount ingested in milligrams.
The most powerful is digitoxin C34H54O11, an extremely poisonous and cumulative drug, insoluble in water.

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