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reg·i·men

 (rĕj′ə-mən, -mĕn′)
n.
1.
a. A regulated system, as of medication, diet, or exercise, used to promote health or treat illness or injury.
b. A procedure, program, or routine: a regimen of mathematics seminars.
2. A systematic way of managing something: a crop regimen.
3. Archaic Governmental rule or control.
[Middle English, from Latin; see regime.]

regimen

(ˈrɛdʒɪˌmɛn)
n
1. (Medicine) Also called: regime a systematic way of life or course of therapy, often including exercise and a recommended diet
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) administration or rule
[C14: from Latin: guidance]

reg•i•men

(ˈrɛdʒ ə mən, -ˌmɛn, ˈrɛʒ-)

n.
1. a regulated course, as of diet, exercise, or manner of living, to preserve or restore health or to attain some result.
2. government or rule.
[1350–1400; Middle English < Latin: rule, government, guidance, derivative of reg(ere) to rule]
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.regimen - (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet)regimen - (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet)
regime
plan, program, programme - a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished; "they drew up a six-step plan"; "they discussed plans for a new bond issue"
medical specialty, medicine - the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques

regimen

noun
The systematic application of remedies to effect a cure:
care, rehabilitation, therapy, treatment.
Informal: rehab.
Translations

regimen

[ˈredʒɪmən] N → régimen m

regimen

[ˈrɛdʒɪmən] n (= regime of diet and exercise) → régime m de vie
Whatever regimen has been prescribed should be rigorously followed → Quel que soit le régime de vie prescrit, il devra être suivi rigoureusement.
exercise regimen → régime d'exercice

regimen

n (Med) → Kur f

regimen

[ˈrɛdʒɪˌmɛn] n (frm) → regime m

regimen

n régimen m
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The frown, the harsh rebuke, the frequent application of the rod, enjoined by Scriptural authority, were used, not merely in the way of punishment for actual offences, but as a wholesome regimen for the growth and promotion of all childish virtues.
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To this I was silent out of partiality to my own kind; yet here I could plainly discover the true seeds of spleen, which only seizes on the lazy, the luxurious, and the rich; who, if they were forced to undergo the same regimen, I would undertake for the cure.
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I cannot remember now what it was, but his medical advisers had put him on a very severe regimen, and the ferocious hunger familiar to convalescents, sheer animal appetite, had overpowered all human sensibilities.
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His digestion was weak and he lived chiefly on Graham bread and hominy--a regimen to which he was so much attached that his tour seemed to him destined to be blighted when, on landing on the Continent, he found that these delicacies did not flourish under the table d'hote system.
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It is, perhaps, from their meat regimen that the Gauchos, like other carnivorous animals, can abstain long from food.
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By the invention of lingering death; for he had a mortal disease which he perpetually tended, and as recovery was out of the question, he passed his entire life as a valetudinarian; he could do nothing but attend upon himself, and he was in constant torment whenever he departed in anything from his usual regimen, and so dying hard, by the help of science he struggled on to old age.
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Why, the doctor told me I wasn't to think about it, for I was sure to get better if I stuck to his regimen and prescriptions.
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The business hours, allowing for intervals of invalid regimen of oysters and partridges, during which Clennam refreshed himself with a walk, were from ten to six for about a fortnight.
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Mr Wegg pursued the biography of that eminent man through its various phases of avarice and dirt, through Miss Dancer's death on a sick regimen of cold dumpling, and through Mr Dancer's keeping his rags together with a hayband, and warming his dinner by sitting upon it, down to the consolatory incident of his dying naked in a sack.
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Stelling's theory; if we are to have one regimen for all minds, his seems to me as good as any other.
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Women are similarly likely to continue taking oral contraceptives and to avoid pregnancy whether they use a continuous regimen or a cyclic regimen of pills, finds a randomized trial conducted in the Dominican Republic.
Continuation and pregnancy rates are similar for continuous, cyclic pill
SAN FRANCISCO - The medical abortion regimen approved by the Food and Drug Administration is less effective and less convenient than an alternative evidence-based regimen, yet in some areas women are being denied access to the more effective regimen, Dr.
Competing medical abortion regimens differ in efficacy: mandating the FDA regimen 'is going to have a real impact on women's care.'

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