Usually means: Medication that lowers cholesterol levels.
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  1. statin: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. statin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. statin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  6. Statin, statin: Wordnik
  7. statin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. -statin, statin: Wiktionary
  9. statin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  11. Statin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. statin: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  2. statin: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  3. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  4. -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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