🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

digital

Pronunciation / Transliteration: di.ʒiˈtaw

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Digitalis/ˌdɪdʒ.ɪˈteɪ.lɪs/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O extrato de digital é utilizado no tratamento de insuficiência cardíaca."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A drug prepared from the dried leaves of the foxglove plant, used to stimulate the heart muscle in cases of heart failure.

    "The cardiologist prescribed digitalis to help regulate the patient's heart rate."
  2. 2

    Any plant of the genus Digitalis, comprising the foxgloves.

    "Tall stalks of purple digitalis bloomed in the shaded corners of the woodland garden."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Modern Latin, coined in 1742 by Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus from the Latin 'digitalis' meaning 'relating to a finger', based on 'digitus' (finger). The name refers to the finger-shaped flowers of the plant, commonly known as the foxglove.

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