cholestyramine

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cholestyramine Drug used to treat hyperlipidaemia by complexing bile salts in the intestinal lumen and increasing their excretion, so increasing their synthesis from cholesterol.

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cholestyramine

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cholestyramine n. see colestyramine.

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