statin drug

1. 1.

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

   Synonymslipid-lowering medicinelipid-lowering medicationstatin

   Broadermedicine

   Narroweratorvastatincerivastatinfluvastatinlovastatinpravastatinsimvastatin

Questions about statin drug

What does statin drug mean?

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

What is another word for statin drug?

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

statin drug 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.