cardiac glycoside

1. 1.

   obtained from a number of plants and used to stimulate the heart in cases of heart failure

   Synonymscardiac glucoside

   Broadersteroid

   Narrowerdigitalis

Questions about cardiac glycoside

What does cardiac glycoside mean?

cardiac glycoside means "obtained from a number of plants and used to stimulate the heart in cases of heart failure".

What is another word for cardiac glycoside?

Close synonyms include cardiac glucoside. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cardiac glycoside a common word?

cardiac glycoside is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.