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n. - Digitalis preparation (trade name Lanoxin) used to treat congestive heart failure or cardiac arrhythmia.

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  • The baby is sometimes "euthanized" with a drug medicine known as digoxin or digitalis.
  • Charles Cullen, the male nurse at these hospitals, usually using digoxin, which is a heart medication, just adding that to I.V. drips.
  • · In urgent situations (e.g. acute failure) digoxin (IV)
  • So it was too slow for digitoxin, and too quick for digoxin.
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