treatment

Plural: treatments

Noun

• care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
• the management of someone or something
  • "the treatment of water sewage"
  • "the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system"
• a manner of dealing with something artistically
  • "his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture"
• an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic
  • "his treatment of the race question is badly biased"
• The process or manner of treating someone or something.
• Medical care for an illness or injury.
• The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
• A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
• A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
• entertainment; treat

Examples

• A treatment or cure is applied after a medical problem has already started.
• Cancer survivors who got radiation treatments as children have nearly twice the risk of developing diabetes as adults.
• He still has nightmares resulting from the abusive treatment he received from his captors.
• The change is due largely to the increased availability of antiretroviral treatment.

Synonyms

discourse, discussion, handling, intervention, course

Related Words

treat