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.] |
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