treatment
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
treat + -ment. Compare French traitement.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
treatment (countable and uncountable, plural treatments)
- The process or manner of treating someone or something.
- He still has nightmares resulting from the treatment he received from his captors.
- Medical care for an illness or injury.
- 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.
- The change is due largely to the increased availability of antiretroviral treatment.
- The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
- (countable) A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page vii:
- Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
- (countable, film) A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
- (obsolete) entertainment; treat
- 1725–1726, Homer, “Book 14”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, and Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
- Accept such treatment as a swain affords.
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Translations[edit]
process or manner of treating
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medical care for an illness or injury
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preserving or giving particular properties
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