The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

control structure

    One of the instructions, statements or groups of
   statements in a programming language which determines the
   sequence of execution of other instructions or statements (the
   control flow).

   In assembly language this typically consists of jumps and
   conditional jumps along with procedure call and return
   though some architectures include other constructs such as an
   instruction which skips the following instruction depending on
   some condition (PDP?), various kinds of loop instructions
   (later Motorola 680x0) or conditional execution of all
   instructions (Advanced RISC Machine).

   Basic control structures (whatever their names in particular
   languages) include "if CONDITION then EXPRESSION else
   EXPRESSION", the switch statement, "while CONDITION do
   EXPRESSION", "gosub", the suspect "goto" and the much-feared
   "come from".  Other constructs handle errors and
   exceptions such as traps and interrupts.

   (1997-09-14)