noun
- A steroid compound derived from digitalis plants, used as a cardiac glycoside in the treatment of heart conditions.
Usage: pharmaceutical; technical; also called digitoxin aglycone
Examples
- Digitoxigenin is the active aglycone component of the cardiac glycoside digitoxin.
- The pharmaceutical industry isolates digitoxigenin from foxglove plants for cardiac medications.
- Digitoxigenin acts on the heart by increasing the force of myocardial contractions.
- Researchers study digitoxigenin to understand how cardiac glycosides affect sodium-potassium pumps.