regimen

[rej-uh-muh n, -men, rezh-]

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noun

Medicine/Medical. a regulated course, as of diet, exercise, or manner of living, intended to preserve or restore health or to attain some result.
regime(defs 1, 2).
Grammar. government(def 9).

Origin of regimen

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin: rule, government, guidance, equivalent to reg(ere) to rule + -i- -i- + -men, noun suffix of result

Can be confusedregime regimen regiment

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Related Words for regimen

menu, procedure, regime, control, government, process, administration, system, rule, diet

Examples from the Web for regimen

Contemporary Examples of regimen

An 18-year-old male is unlikely to stick to a regimen of drugs with those kinds of side effects.
How a Psychiatric Slip-Up Killed a Cop
Mansfield Frazier
November 3, 2009

Historical Examples of regimen

Regimen and not medicine is the true cure, when a man has time at his disposal.
Timaeus
Plato
Wentwort' must go to his regimen', and my ot'er officers are all occupi'.
Mistress Wilding
Rafael Sabatini
She commenced by taxing him with his book against her 'regimen.'
John Knox
A. Taylor Innes
The regimen I had to undergo on this occasion was far from agreeable.
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
John Gibson Lockhart
We follow exactly what you have prescribed for their regimen and their studies.
Hortense, Makers of History Series
John S. C. Abbott

British Dictionary definitions for regimen

regimen

noun

Also called: regime a systematic way of life or course of therapy, often including exercise and a recommended diet
administration or rule

Word Origin for regimen

C14: from Latin: guidance

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Word Origin and History for regimen

c.1400, medical, "course of diet, exercise, etc. for sake of health;" mid-15c., "act of governing," from Old French regimen (14c.), from Latin regimen "rule, guidance, government, means of guidance, rudder," from regere "to rule" (see regal).

regimen in Medicine

regimen

[rĕj′ə-mən, -mĕn′]

A regulated system, as of diet, therapy, or exercise, intended to promote health or achieve another beneficial effect.
A course of intense physical training.