statin

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — The researchers found that statins were likely to provide benefits at a substantially higher health risk than expected and that those risk levels were lower for atorvastatin and rosuvastatin than for simvastatin and pravastatin. […] Yet some of the statin side effects mentioned in the study have not been proved in the scientific literature or are exaggerated and could cause unnecessary worry, he said.
  2. An inhibiting hormone; a hormone that is involved primarily in inhibiting the release of another hormone.

词形变化

statins plural

词汇关系

衍生词
amylostatin blebbistatin corticostatin melastatin nonstatin oncostatin ovostatin spliceostatin ubistatin

词源

From the suffix -statin, from terms such as lovastatin and simvastatin.
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