English word bisdigitoxoside comes from English bis-, English digitoxoside ((organic chemistry) Any compound of digitoxose.)
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| bis- | English (eng) | (chemistry, obsolete) A variant of tri- used to indicate that the component that does not take the prefix occurs twice in the compound: a bisoxide is of the form B2O. (mathematics, chemistry) A variant of di-, used for substitutions of two complex rather than simple units.. An occasional variant of bi- prefixed to roots beginning with a vowel, as in bisalternate. |
| digitoxoside | English (eng) | (organic chemistry) Any compound of digitoxose. |
| bisdigitoxoside | English (eng) | (biochemistry) A derivative of digoxin that contains only two (rather than three) glycoside units. |