Relating to or containing digitalis or its active compounds, especially in medical or botanical contexts.
Derived from 'digitalis' plus the adjective suffix '-ic.' The root 'digitalis' comes from Latin 'digitus' (finger), named for the flower's resemblance to a fingerstall or thimble.
The whole family of 'digital-' words in medicine came from a simple observation: someone noticed that foxglove flowers looked like thimbles you'd put on your fingers, so they named the plant 'digitus' plus Latin 'alis'—and centuries later, we still use that flower name in chemistry.
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