digitalizev.1
/ˈdɪdʒᵻtl̩ʌɪz/, /ˈdɪdʒᵻtəlʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈdɪdʒᵻdlˌaɪz/ Medicine.
transitive. To administer digitalis to; to subject to digitalization (digitalization n.1).
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a1808 T. Beddoes in J. E. Stock Mem. Life Thomas Beddoes (1811) App. XI. p. lxi To try this—to opiate a number of frogs near an air-thermometer. Also, to digitalize them.
1835 London Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 6 200/1 Indeed, I know one physician who digitalizes almost every patient, and with the object in view of diminishing the action of the heart and arteries.
1876 Med. Times & Gaz. 26 Aug. 228/2 The pulse not diminishing in animals that have been digitalised after section of the pneumogastric and sympathetic nerves.
1927 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 10 Sept. 884 The general practitioner should not thoughtlessly digitalize his patient unless he has..facilities for determining the exact condition of his heart.
1961 D. M. Dunlop Textbk. Med. Treatm. (ed. 8) 565 The total dose required to digitalize a fully grown adult is of the order of 1·5 to 2 g. (20 to 30 gr.) of digitalis powder..over a period of several days.
2006 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 119 527.e5/2 Two study patients were chronically receiving digitalis..but none were acutely digitalized.
Derivatives
ˈdigitalizing n. the action or process of administering digitalis to a person or animal; the action or process of subjecting to digitalization.Some examples of the attributive use of the noun could be interpreted as an adjective.
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1835 London Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 6 200/1 I had a young friend, who was killed, I am quite certain, by his digitalizing.
1927 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 174 262 It appears that the systematic administration of digitalis in digitalizing doses may have been of benefit in this series.
1934 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 79 288 Minor cardiac insufficiencies, if present, call for a digitalizing regime before sustained sleep is begun.
2000 Progress Pediatric Cardiol. 12 63/1 A total digitalizing dose of 20 μg/kg intravenously..was as effective..in premature infants.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
digitalizev.2
/ˈdɪdʒᵻtl̩ʌɪz/, /ˈdɪdʒᵻtəlʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈdɪdʒᵻdlˌaɪz/ transitive. = digitize v. 3.
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society > computing and information technology > data > database > use data [verb (transitive)] > convert to digits
digitize1953
digitalize1955
1955 U.S. Patent 2,700,501 2 The voltage sensitive detector..may be utilized to digitalize an unknown voltage.
1973 Computers & Biomedical Res. 6 476 A third important program is a data acquirer which automatically digitalizes analog data and stores it for use by the other programs.
1993 English Today Apr. 39/2 In the future..everything will be digitalized, from texts, to sound, to pictures.
2008 Evening Herald (Plymouth) (Nexis) 4 Feb. 6 Volunteers have been working hard to catalogue and digitalise about two million photographs of Plymouth and the West Country.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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