Meaning & use
Digitalize
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To convert information or processes into digital form; also, in medicine, to administer digitalis to a patient to treat heart conditions.
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The library began to digitalize its archive of historic newspapers.
Doctors carefully digitalize patients with heart failure to regulate their heart rhythm.
A note on using this word
"Digitalize" and "digitize" are often used interchangeably for converting data to digital form, but only "digitalize" carries the separate medical meaning related to the drug digitalis.
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Another way to use it
2. verb
To treat with digitalis, especially to regulate heart function.
The patient was digitalized to stabilize an irregular heartbeat.
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