noun the word or words governed.
2. regimen ·noun orderly government; system of order; adminisration.
3. regimen ·noun any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.
4. regimen ·noun a syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.
5. regimen ·noun 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.