Statin Moderate

Statin has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Definitions

Noun

a medicine that lowers blood cholesterol levels by inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase

lipid-lowering medicine lipid-lowering medication statin drug statin

Any of a class of drugs (chiefly lactones or pyrroles) that lower the amount of cholesterol in the blood by inhibiting an enzyme involved in its biosynthesis.

See Also

pravastatin cholesterol release enzyme blood atorvastatin mevastatin versipelostatin

Related Terms

pravastatin cholesterol release enzyme blood atorvastatin mevastatin versipelostatin lovastatin biosynthesis inhibiting prosomatostatin quinostatin lactone fluvastatin vastatin hormone pitavastatin cerivastatin drug

Broader Terms (hypernyms)

medicine

Narrower Terms (hyponyms)

atorvastatin cerivastatin fluvastatin lovastatin pravastatin simvastatin

Rhyming Words

tin gtin itin putin matin totin ditin potin nitin titin hatin rutin jatin latin cutin artin tatin eatin datin ettin

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