Regimen
['redʒɪmən] or ['rɛdʒɪmən]
Definition
(noun.) (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet).
Typist: Lottie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Orderly government; system of order; adminisration.
(n.) Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation
(n.) a systematic course of diet, etc., pursed with a view to improving or preserving the health, or for the purpose of attaining some particular effect, as a reduction of flesh; -- sometimes used synonymously with hygiene.
(n.) A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.
(n.) The word or words governed.
Typed by Eugenia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Dietetics, regulation of diet.[2]. Diet, food, fare.[3]. (Gram.) Government.
Edited by Harold
Definition
n. rule prescribed: orderly government: any regulation for gradual improvement: (med.) rule of diet habit with regard to food: (gram.) the government of one word by another: words governed:—pl. Regim′ina.—adj. Regim′inal.
Editor: Pasquale
Examples
- I cannot persuade you to adopt my regimen, Vincy? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I prescribe that regimen for you, my dear, in pure good-will, without a fee. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Hygeia herself would have fallen sick under such a regimen; and how much more this poor old nervous victim? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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