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say it: loh-VA-stuh-tin
lovastatin is a noun meaning "an oral drug (trade name Mevacor) to reduce blood cholesterol levels; used when dietary changes have proved inadequate". It is pronounced /loʊˈvæstətɪn/ — loh-VA-stuh-tin. It carries one recorded sense.
an oral drug (trade name Mevacor) to reduce blood cholesterol levels; used when dietary changes have proved inadequate
trade name
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lovastatin come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.