1. a drug made from the foxglove plant, that helps the heart muscle to work
   Word Originlate 18th cent.: from the modern Latin genus name of the foxglove, from digitalis (herba) ‘(plant) relating to the finger’, from digitus ‘finger, toe’; suggested by German Fingerhut ‘thimble or foxglove’.

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