NOUN
- obtained from a number of plants and used to stimulate the heart in cases of heart failure
How To Use cardiac glycoside In A Sentence
- Strophanthus gratus contains the cardiac glycoside [gamma] strophanthin and the alkaloid inoeine.
- Plants that contain cardiac glycoside can cause changes in the rate or rhythm of your child's heart. Poisonous Plants
- The development of purified cardiac glycosides, the active principles of digitalis, has been a distinct step forward in the treatment of diseases of the heart.
- A number of herbs including oleander, adonis, black Indian hemp, black hellebore, lily-of-the-valley, squill, and strophanthus contain an active cardiac glycoside that can potentiate digoxin.
- All monarch caterpillars eat milkweed, a plant with an acrid latex containing potent cardiac glycosides, causing birds who eat the butterflies to vomit and learn to avoid them.
- Despite a long history of use in the treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, the efficacy of cardiac glycosides has not been established.
- Plants that contain cardiac glycoside can cause changes in the rate or rhythm of your child's heart. Poisonous Plants
- Although digitoxin is used widely in Europe, the cardiac glycoside digoxin is widely used in the United States.
- The wings of the monarch butterfly, for example, contain powerful heart-stopping poisons called cardiac glycosides.
