regimen Definition
regi·men (rej′ə mən)
noun
- Rare
- the act of governing; government; rule
- a particular system of government; regime
- a regulated system of diet, exercise, etc. for therapy or the maintenance or improvement of health
Etymology: ME < L, rule, government < regere, to rule: see right
regimen Usage Examples
Preposition: of
chemotherapy: When she develops ovarian cancer and embarks on a debilitating regimen of chemotherapy, she finds herself not in control for the first time.
Possessives
smoking: Advantages: The most unusual ' quit smoking ' regimen I've seen anyone use!
Converse of object
- taper: The taper phase regimen used in clinical trials involved decreasing the daily dose by 10 mg at weekly intervals.
- dose: Patients who are stable on a once weekly dosing regimen may be switched to once every two weeks administration.
- optimize: The responses seen with all dosages studied are superior to the responses seen with placebo and an optimized background regimen.
- prescribe: And relative spacing prescribed regimens and specialty retail report countries including the.
- fail: The manufacturer has not studied the use of emtricitabine in people who are failing their current anti-HIV regimen or who have failed multiple regimens.
- compare: Prospective studies comparing one regimen over another are lacking.
Adjective modifier
- preparative: Novel therapeutic approaches with innovative preparative regimens are warranted for the remaining high-risk patients.
- immunosuppressive: There is no good evidence that immunosuppressive drug regimens are effective.
- chemotherapeutic: These patients were treated with a new systemic chemotherapeutic regimen " PEACE " therapy.
- antiretroviral: The authors evaluated 38 patients receiving standard nevirapine dose as part of their antiretroviral regimen.
- empiric: Oncologists prescribe patients one standard empiric chemotherapy regimen after another, until they find one that works.
- antimicrobial: The duration of the antimicrobial prophylactic regimen examined in the included trials varied from a single dose to a 14-day course.
Noun used with modifier
- chemotherapy: RESULTS: Patients had received a median of four prior chemotherapy regimens.
- dosage: Further serum level determinations may be required to further refine the dosage regimen.
- bolus: When my daughter changed to a basal bolus regimen then improved a lot.
- second-line: Patients who fail the second-line regimen will be offered the best combination available from the first and second line drugs.
- antihypertensive: Catapres may be added to an existing antihypertensive regimen where blood pressure control has not been satisfactorily achieved.
- high-dose: The use of methotrexate high-dose regimens recommended for osteosarcoma requires meticulous care due to the potential for additive or synergistic renal toxicity.
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