regimen

A regulated system, as of medication, diet, or exercise, used to promote health or treat illness or injury.

A procedure, program, or routine.

A systematic way of managing something.

Governmental rule or control.

In physical geography, the physical characteristics of a river, especially of a graded river; also, the condition of a river or current when it does not actively build up or wear down its course; in general, grade. See the extract.

Orderly government or system; system of order; government; control.

Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation; specifically, in medicine, the regulation of diet, exercise, etc., with a view to the preservation or restoration of health, or for the attainment of a determinate result; a course of living according to certain rules: sometimes used as equivalent to hygiene, but most commonly used as a synonym for diet, 2.

In zoology, habit or mode of life with regard to eating; choice of food; dietetics: as, an animal or a vegetable regimen; carnivorous regimen.

In grammar: Government; the control which one word exercises over the form of another in connection with it.