statin

1. 1.

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

   Synonymslipid-lowering medicinelipid-lowering medicationstatin drug

   Broadermedicine

   Narroweratorvastatincerivastatinfluvastatinlovastatinpravastatinsimvastatin

Other forms of statin

plural

statins·

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.

Questions about statin

What does statin mean?

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

How many syllables are in statin?

statin has 2 syllables: sta-tin. The stress falls on "sta". In IPA it is /ˈsteɪtɪn/.

What is another word for statin?

Close synonyms include lipid-lowering medicine, lipid-lowering medication, statin drug. 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 statin a common word?

statin 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.