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Regimen

Definition: Regimen

Regimen

Noun

1. (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "regimen" was first used: 1456. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Regimen

DomainDefinitions

Geography

In climatology, term used to characterize the seasonal distribution of one or more elements at a given place. Source: European Union. (references)
 The condition of a stream or its channel as regards their stability. Source: European Union. (references)

Health

A treatment plan that specifies the dosage, the schedule, and the duration of treatment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Regimen

Synonym: regime (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Regimen

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Food

Food, pabulum; aliment, nourishment, nutriment; sustenance, sustentation, sustention; nurture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board; commissariat; (provision); prey, forage, pasture, pasturage; fare, cheer; diet, dietary; regimen; belly timber, staff of life; bread, bread and cheese.

Remedy

Treatment, medical treatment, regimen; dietary, dietetics; vis medicatrix, vis medicatrix naturae; medecine expectante; bloodletting, bleeding, venesection, phlebotomy, cupping, sanguisae, leeches; operation, surgical operation; transfusion, infusion, intravenous infusion, catheter, feeding tube;

Cure, treatment, regimen; radical cure, perfect cure, certain cure; sovereign remedy.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Regimen

English words defined with "regimen": dietGerocomyRegiminal. (references)
Specialty definitions using "regimen": Clinical Protocolsflood plainMilieu TherapyPatient Compliance, Pharmacotherapy, phase II/III trial. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Regimen" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (administration, government, guidance, regime, regimen, rule), Spanish (behaviour, manner).

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Modern Usage: Regimen

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Fortunately, I'm adhering to a pretty strict, uh, drug, uh, regimen to keep my mind, you know, uh, limber. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Regimen

DomainTitle

Books

  • Alimentos De Regimen (reference)

  • Discourse and Political Reflections on the Kingdoms of Peru: Their Government, Special Regimen of Their Inhabitants, and Abuses Which Have Beenanniv (reference)

  • Drug Regimen Compliance: Issues in Clinical Trials and Patient Management (reference)

  • LA Encrucijada: Y Despues Del Antiguo Regimen, Que? (reference)

  • Ne' Ne's Dill Weed Regimen (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Regimen

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

A simple blood test that checks the blood urea nitrogen (BUN) levels in cattle can help producers fine-tune their herd's feeding regimen. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Regimen

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

This regimen may cause bleeding similar to menstrual periods in most women. (references)

It is important to match the best treatment regimen to the needs of the patient. (references)

Preliminary results strongly suggested superiority for the paclitaxel-based regimen. (references)

Business

Nevertheless, the changes to the maquiladora regimen and the implementation of Nafta article 303, is creating concern among these plants because they will have to start paying profit taxes and import duties on products and equipment coming from non-Nafta countries. (references)

Human Rights

Israel and the occupied territories

Prisoners incarcerated for security reasons were subject to a different regimen, even in IPS facilities, and conditions for them were poor. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Regimen

"Regimen" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Regimen" is used about 128 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%12828,261

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Regimen

Expression using "regimen": under a regimen. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Regimen

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

intermedio regimen

14

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13

regimen simplificado

11

regimen workout

11

exercise regimen

9

regimen saltz

9

skin care regimen

6

administracion area bajo de especial regimen

6

colombiano laboral regimen

6

food raw regimen

5

antiguo regimen

5

regimen simplificado unico

5

beauty regimen

5

exercise form regimen

4

exercise postpartum regimen

4

fitness regimen

4

alimenticio regimen

4

en fiscal mexico municipal regimen

3

acompañado de equipaje no regimen

3

contribuyentes de pequeños regimen

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Regimen

Language Translations for "regimen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

regjim (regime), qeverisje (governance, government), drejtim (accost, administration, conduct, course, direction, directorship, disposal, drift, guide, headship, helm, lead, leadership, lie, line, management, manual, operation, orientation, quarter, rectification, resort, run, set, steerage, supervision, tenor, trend, vector, way). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حكم (administer, administration, arbiter, arbitration, ascendancy, authority, award, control, decide, decision, deliverance, determination, dispensation, doom, fasten, fastening, find, finding, govern, hand down, judge, judgement, judgment, opinion, reckon, referee, rule, ruling, run, sway, umpire, verdict), ‏حكومة (government, office, polity), ‏حمية (ardor, ardour, diet, enthusiasm, flush, zeal), ‏أسلوب (archaism, character, diction, flair, genre, language, manner, method, mode, pattern, phraseology, sort, strain, style, stylization, technique, tone), ‏أدارة, ‏رجيم (damned, evil). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

управление (administration, bureau, charge, control, direction, directorate, governance, government, guidance, headquarters, helm, management, office, operation, regiment, rule, superintendence), рекция (rection), режим (administration, norm, regime, regiment). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

养"之". (various references)

   

Czech

  

rekce (government), dieta (diet, regime). (various references)

   

Danish

  

regime (regime), flodregime (regime). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

rivierregime (regime). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پرهیزغذاءی , حکومت (Administration, Dominion, Government, Reign, Steer), رده (Category, Class, Echelon, Tier). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

regiimi (regime), vesitaseolot (regime), olot (circumstances, conditions, regime, state of things). (various references)

   

French

  

régime (regime). (various references)

   

German

  

Rektion (government, rection), Regierung (administration, authorities, control, government, leadership, reign, rule), Wasserhaushalt (water supply), Herrschaft (authority, control, dominance, dominion, estate, grip, ladies and gentlemen, lordship, masteries, mastery, Mr. and Mrs., power, reign, rule), gesunde Lebensweise, Flussregime (regime), Flusscharakteristik (regime), Diät (diet). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αγωγή (action, conductance, conduction, education, law suit, lawsuit, legal action, plaint, prosecution, suit, treatment), δίαιτα ισορροπίας (regime), δίαιτα (diet, regime). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

משטר (authority, government, polity, regime, reign, rule). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

diéta (diet, dietary), étrend (commons, course, dietary, menu), életrend (course). (various references)

   

Italian

  

regime (condition, diet, gime, regime, running, speed, system). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

연대 (regiment, regimental). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

egimenray

   

Portuguese

  

regime (diet, dietary, organization, polka, rate, regime). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

regim alimentar dietetic, regim (conditions, regime, schedule), tratament (cure, handling, iatrogenic, medicine, treatment). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

режим (mode, regime). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

upravljanje (control, directing, driving, management, managing, procuration), uprava (administration, authority, bureau, direction, directorate, division, government, mastership). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

régimen (diet, government, operating conditions, operating factors, rate, regime). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

regim (management, régime, regime). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

rejim (diet, fasting cure, government, reducing diet, regime, slimdown), sözcükler arası yapısal etkileşim, perhiz (diet, fasting, fasting cure, slimdown), idare (admin, administration, chancellery, conduct, control, disposition, dominion, economy, government, handling, helm, management, mastery, rein, rule, ruling, sparing, steerage, steering, stewardship, supervision, sway, thrift, wire), diyet (diet, regime). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

управління (administration, agency, authority, control, department, dispensation, disposal, governance, gubernation, guidance, leadership, leading, management, office, ordering, presidence, regiment, ruling, steerage, stewardship, superintendence), режим (regime, schedule). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

chế độ dinh dưỡng, chính thể (polity, regime). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Regimen

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

regimen. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Regimen

Derivations

Words beginning with "regimen": regimens, regiment, regimental, regimentals, regimentation, regimentations, regimented, regimenting, regiments. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Regimen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pregiven, Ragimov, recimen, regeimn, regeme, Regiae, regiem, regieme, regiemn, regimin, regimine, regimn, reginiano, Regmi, regrime, reigemn, reigen, Rogozen. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Regimen"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "regimen" (pronounced re"jumun)
5-j u m u nBenjamin.
4-u m u nantihistamine, cameraman, cinnamon, ottoman, specimen, Telamon, thiamin, vitamin.
3-m u nabdomen, acumen, adman, admen, airman, albumin, alderman, Ashman, assemblywoman, backgammon, backwoodsman, Badman, bagman, barman, baseman, bayman, bellman, bitumen, Boardman, boatman, bookman, Bowman, bowmen, brakeman, bushman, businesswoman, Carman, Carmen, carmine, cattlemen, Cayman, chairman, chairwoman, Chapman, chessman, chrismon, churchman, churchmen, clergyman, coachman, cochairman, committeeman, common, congressman, congresswoman, corpsman, councilman, councilwoman, councilwomen, countryman, cowman, craftsman, craftsmen, crewman, daemon, dairymen, Daman, demon, desman, determine, Dolman, draftsman, draftsmen, dromon, dustman, Dutchman, Ermine, Everyman, examine, famine, ferryman, fireman, firemen, Firman, footman, foramen, foreman, foremen, forewoman, Freedman, Freeman, freshman, gammon, gentleman, gentlewoman, gentlewomen, german, Goodman, gunman, hangman, headman, headsman, henchman, henchmen, Herdman, Hetman, horseman, horsemen, houseman, human, huntsman, hymen, illumine, infantryman, inhuman, jasmine, Kirkman, Landman, landsman, lawman, layman, laymen, Leman, lemon, Letterman, Liman, Lineman, linemen, lobsterman, longshoremen, lumen, madmen, marksman, messman, midshipman, newswoman, newswomen, nobleman, noblewoman, nonhuman, nurserymen, oarsman, ombudsman, omen, Outman, overman, Packman, Penman, pitchman, Pitman, Plowman, policeman, policewoman, postman, predetermine, pressman, Pullman, ragmen, reexamine, rifleman, Rodman, roman, rumen, salarymen, salesman, saleswoman, saleswomen, salmon, seaman, seamen, seedsman, semen, sermon, shaman, Shipman, showman, Spearman, spokesman, spokeswoman, sportsman, statesman, Stillman, Stockman, subhuman, summon, superhuman, superwoman, talisman, timberman, Titman, Toman, townsman, tradesmen, trainmen, uncommon, watchman, Waterman, watermen, wingman, wireman, woman, women, Woodman, woodsmen, Woolman, workman, yachtsman, yeoman.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Regimen

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-m-n-r"

-1 letter: emigre, ermine, germen, regime.

-2 letters: genie, genre, green, grime, merge, miner, reign, renig.

-3 letters: eger, emir, erne, gene, germ, gien, girn, gree, grim, grin, mere, mien, mine, mire, neem, rein, rime, ring.

-4 letters: eme, eng, ere, erg, ern, gee, gem, gen, gie, gin, ire, meg, men, mig, mir, nee, nim, ree, reg, rei, rem, rig, rim, rin.

-5 letters: em, en, er, in, me, mi, ne, re.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-m-n-r"
 

+1 letter: emerging, meringue, metering, regimens, regiment.

 

+2 letters: degerming, demerging, deperming, germanize, germinate, greenmail, impregned, menagerie, meringues, redeeming, regiments, rehemming, reimagine, remedying, remeeting, remelting, remending, remerging, reteaming, tempering.

 

+3 letters: antimerger, besmearing, cinemagoer, compeering, demeriting, emarginate, embowering, empowering, ergotamine, fermenting, germanized, germanizes, germinated, germinates, goniometer, greenmails, grimnesses, impregnate, magnetizer, malingered, malingerer, meandering, menageries, mongrelize, permeating, preempting, premiering, redreaming, reemerging, reemitting, regimental, regimented, reimagined, reimagines, remodeling, resembling, resmelting, schmeering, steamering, triggermen.

 

+4 letters: abridgement, argumentive, attempering, cinemagoers, coredeeming, demergering, determining, domineering, egocentrism, embittering, embordering, embryogenic, emergencies, encumbering, enumerating, ergotamines, extermining, ferrimagnet, fragmentize, gendarmerie, germinative, goniometers, greenmailed, greenmailer, griminesses, homogenizer, impregnable, impregnated, impregnates, intermingle, interregnum, legerdemain, magnetizers, malingerers, maneuvering, mercerising, mercerizing, mesmerising, mesmerizing, minnesinger, misentering, misgoverned, missteering, mongrelized, mongrelizes, monseigneur, mutineering, overemoting, overmelting, realignment, redemanding, reembarking, reembodying, reemploying, reexamining, regimentals, regimenting, rehammering, reimmersing, remarketing, remastering, remeasuring, remediating, remembering, remodelling, renumbering, rereminding, retempering, somerseting, timeserving.

 

+5 letters: abridgements, aeromagnetic, aggrievement, counterimage, decrementing, demagnetizer, disagreement, dismembering, distempering, egocentrisms, embroidering, embryogenies, everblooming, ferrimagnets, fragmentized, fragmentizes, gendarmeries, geometrician, geometrising, geometrizing, goniometries, greenbackism, greenmailers, greenmailing, grumpinesses, homogenizers, incrementing, infringement, intermeshing, intermingled, intermingles, interregnums, intersegment, legerdemains, mastersinger, messeigneurs, mineralogies, minnesingers, misreferring, misrendering, numerologies, overwhelming, premarketing, premeasuring, prenumbering, realignments, reassembling, reassignment, reattempting, recommencing, recommending, recompensing, reestimating, remaindering, remoistening, remonetizing, remunerating, somersetting, telegramming, telemetering, timeservings, ungerminated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Regimen


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 67 69 6D 65 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01100111 01101001 01101101 01100101 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#103 &#105 &#109 &#101 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0067 0069 006D 0065 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52717375797180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Translations: Ancient
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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