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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A statin drug, C22H28FN3O6S, used in the form of its calcium salt to treat hyperlipidemia.

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  • noun medicine A particular statin

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Perhaps (fluo)ro– + su(lfonyl) + -vastatin, statin suff.; see pravastatin.]

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