cardiac glycoside: Meaning and Definition of

car'diac gly'coside

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— Pharm. Pharm.
  1. any of a group of drugs used to stimulate the heart in cases of heart failure, obtained from a number of plants, as the foxglove, squill, or yellow oleander.
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