lipid-lowering medicine

Questions about lipid-lowering medicine

What does lipid-lowering medicine mean?

lipid-lowering medicine means "a medicine that lowers blood cholesterol levels by inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase".

What is another word for lipid-lowering medicine?

Close synonyms include lipid-lowering medication, statin drug, statin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lipid-lowering medicine a common word?

lipid-lowering medicine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.