treatment

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Etymology

treat +‎ -ment

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Noun

treatment (plural treatments)

1. The process or manner of treating someone or something.

   The change is due largely to the increased availability of antiretroviral treatment.

   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 treatment he received from his captors.

2. Medical care for an illness or injury.
3. The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
4. A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii

     Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.

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Translations

process or manner of treating

Catalan: tractament (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 處理 (zh), 处理 (zh) (chǔlǐ) Czech: zacházení (cs) n. Finnish: kohtelu (someone), käsittely (something) French: traitement (fr) m. Galician: tratamento (gl) m. German: Behandeln (de) n.

Haitian Creole: tretman Japanese: 処理 (ja) (しょり, shori) Polish: traktowanie (pl) n. Russian: обращение (ru) (obraščénije) n. Serbo-Croatian: tretman (sh), postupanje (sh) Spanish: trato (es) m. Swahili: matibabu (sw)

medical care for an illness or injury

Catalan: tractament (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 治療 (zh), 治疗 (zh) (zhìliáo) Czech: léčba (cs) f. Finnish: hoito (fi), kuuri (fi) French: traitement (fr) m. Galician: tratamento (gl) m. German: Behandlung (de) f. Haitian Creole: tretman

Hindi: इलाज (hi) (ilāj) m. Ido: terapio (io) Japanese: 治療 (ja) (ちりょう, chiryō) Polish: leczenie (pl) n. Russian: лечение (ru) (lečénije) n. Serbo-Croatian: tretman (sh), terapija (sh), liječenje (sh) Spanish: tratamiento (es) m. Swahili: matibabu (sw) Urdu: علاج (ur) ('ilāj) m.

preserving or giving particular properties

Finnish: käsittely (fi) French: traitement (fr) m. German: Behandlung (de) f.

Serbo-Croatian: tretiranje (sh) Spanish: tratamiento (es) m. Swahili: matibabu (sw)

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Dutch: behandeling Greek: αγωγή (agoge) f., θεραπευτική αγωγή (therapeftike agoge) f.