REGIMEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regimen mean? 

• REGIMEN (noun)
  The noun REGIMEN has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: REGIMEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGIMEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

regime; regimen

Hypernyms ("regimen" is a kind of...):

plan; program; programme (a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished)

Domain category:

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

 Context examples 

Also called AC-T and AC-T regimen.

(AC-Taxol regimen, NCI Dictionary)

Also called AC-T-T, AC-T-T regimen, and sequential AC/Taxol-Trastuzumab regimen.

(AC-TH regimen, NCI Dictionary)

A regimen consisting of mitoxantrone and etoposide used for the treatment of adult acute myelogenous leukemia (AML).

(Mitoxantrone-Etoposide Regimen, NCI Thesaurus)

A chemotherapy regimen consisting of doxorubucin hydrochloride (Adriamycin) and cyclophosphamide, followed by paclitaxel (Taxol), administered on either a dose-dense or sequential schedule and used as an adjuvant treatment for breast cancer.

(AC-T regimen, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called ABVE regimen, DBVE, and DBVE regimen.

(ABVE, NCI Dictionary)

Also called ABVE, DBVE, and DBVE regimen.

(ABVE regimen, NCI Dictionary)

A regimen consisting of cyclophosphamide and doxorubicin, followed by paclitaxel and trastuzumab, administered in a sequential fashion and used as an adjuvant treatment for HER-2/neu-positive breast cancer.

(AC-T-T regimen, NCI Thesaurus)

A regimen consisting of doxorubicin and ifosfamide used for the treatment of unresectable soft tissue sarcoma.

(AI Regimen, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-cross resistant regimen in which half of the MOPP regimen is administered with half of the ABV regimen and is used for the initial treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma.

(MOPP/ABV Hybrid Regimen, NCI Thesaurus)

A regimen consisting of methotrexate, vinblastine, doxorubicin and cisplatin used for the treatment of advanced-stage bladder cancer.

(MVAC Regimen, NCI Thesaurus)