Usually means: Medication that lowers cholesterol levels.
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  1. statin: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. statin: Merriam-Webster
  3. statin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. statin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. statin: Collins English Dictionary
  6. statin: Vocabulary.com
  7. Statin, statin: Wordnik
  8. statin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. -statin, statin: Wiktionary
  10. statin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. statin: Dictionary.com
  12. Statin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. statin: Rhymezone
  14. statin: FreeDictionary.org
  15. statin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. statin: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. statin: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. statin: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  3. statin: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  4. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  5. -statin, statin: Medical dictionary

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noun:  (pharmacology) 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.
noun:  (endocrinology) An inhibiting hormone; a hormone that is involved primarily in inhibiting the release of another hormone.

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