How to Use digoxin in a Sentence

digoxin

noun
  • The autopsy revealed the lethal level of digoxin in his system.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 26 Oct. 2022
  • When Gall surprisingly died from a massive heart attack, his autopsy revealed a lethal does of the drug digoxin in his body.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Administering an injection of digoxin, a drug used to treat heart disease in adults, is one method.
    Alejandra Matos, Houston Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Half hour later, the patient takes a medication called digoxin.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2021
  • In small doses, digoxin can help with heart problems, but Cullen administered fatal doses to patients, which led to their deaths.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Microbes can also sabotage the classic cardiac drug digoxin, which is used to treat arrhythmias and heart failure.
    Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2020
  • First, the doctor injects potassium chloride or digoxin into the fetus’s heart, killing it within minutes.
    The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Physicians use digitalis medicines like digoxin, which are derived from members of the foxglove family of plants, to treat congestive heart failure and heart rhythm problems.
    Brad Reisfeld, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2023
  • For the most part, Cullen injected his victims with digoxin, a medication that can help people suffering from irregular heart beats or heart failure, but a high dose is lethal.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The medicine most associated with Cullen's murders is called digoxin, which is used for people suffering from irregular heart beats or even heart failure.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Why did the real-life Cullen spend his 16-year nursing career murdering patient after patient, injecting their IV bags with lethal doses of insulin, digoxin and other medications?
    Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Fiber supplements can lower the effectiveness of anti-depressants like tricyclics, diabetes meds like metformin, heart prescriptions like digoxin, and even seizure scripts.
    Dezi Abeyta, Men's Health, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Since many effective therapeutics, including the heart drug digoxin and the anti-malarial artemisinin, have been derived from traditional medicines, there is interest in exploring entheogens to treat mental illnesses.
    Louis Metzger Iv, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • These include severing the umbilical cord or injecting potassium chloride or the medication digoxin into the fetus.
    Bill Rankin, ajc, 25 May 2018
  • Several doctors, including Wallace, testified that using digoxin in earlier stages of a pregnancy is uncommon, has not been thoroughly studied and is not always effective.
    Alejandra Matos, Houston Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Classified as a cardiac glycoside, digoxin works by affecting calcium activity.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2022

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