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Definition: Statin |
StatinNoun1. A medicine that lowers blood cholesterol levels by inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: StatinSynonyms: lipid-lowering medication (n), lipid-lowering medicine (n), statin drug (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Statin |
| English words defined with "statin": fluvastatin ♦ Lescol. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In some cases, physicians may prescribe cholesterol-lowering medication, and recent studies have shown that the newest types of these drugs, called reductase inhibitors or statin drugs, significantly reduce the risk for stroke in most patients with high cholesterol. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expressions using "statin": statin drug ♦ Statin Drugs. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "statin": stating. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "statin": lovastatin, nystatin, somatostatin. (additional references) | |
Words containing "statin": astatine, astatines, counterstating, devastating, devastatingly, estating, gestating, instating, lovastatins, misstating, nystatins, outstating, overstating, photostating, reinstating, restating, somatostatins, thermostating, understating, unstating. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: taints, tanist, titans. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-n-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: antis, saint, satin, stain, stint, tains, taint, tints, titan. | |
-2 letters: ains, aits, anis, anti, ants, nits, sain, sati, snit, stat, tain, tans, tats, tins, tint, tits. | |
-3 letters: ain, ais, ait, ani, ant, att, ins, its, nit, sat, sin, sit, tan, tas, tat, tin, tis, tit. | |
-4 letters: ai, an, as, at, in, is, it, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-n-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: attains, distant, instant, instate, lattins, mattins, satinet, stating, station, tanists, tasting, titians, transit. | |
+2 letters: anisette, antirust, antismut, antistat, antsiest, astatine, attaints, battings, botanist, catmints, entastic, estating, faintest, hesitant, instants, instated, instates, intrants, intreats, lutanist, mattings, nastiest, nativist, nattiest, naturist, nictates, nitrates, nystatin, oscitant, ostinati, ostinato, pantsuit, patients, sanctity, sanitate, satanist, satinets, scatting, slatting, spatting, stannite, starting, stations, stotinka, straiten, strontia, swatting, tactions, tangiest, tanistry, tattings, tawniest, tertians, tetanics, tetanies, tetanise, titaness, titanias, titanism, titanous, titrants, toasting, transits, transmit, visitant. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 74 61 74 69 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... - .- - .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S t a t i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0074 0061 0074 0069 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)538667867580 |
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