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treat·ment (trēt′mənt)

noun

  1. act, manner, method, etc. of treating, or dealing with, a person, thing, subject in art or literature, etc.
  2. medical, surgical, or cosmetic care, esp. a systematic course of this
  3. Film, TV an outline or prose summary prepared before the script, giving the story with characters, situations, etc. but often without dialogue and usually without separate shots indicated

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treatment

n.

  1. Usage

    handling, processing, dealing, approach, execution, procedure, method, manner, proceeding, way, strategy, custom, habit, employment, practice, mode, modus operandi (Latin), line*, angle*. *

  2. Assistance toward a cure

    operation, medical care, surgery, therapy, remedy, prescription, regimen, hospitalization, medication, nursing, doctoring*; see also medicine 2.


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treatment Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • receive: Our people are unable to receive the hospital treatment they need.

Adjective modifier

  • medical: However, key points relevant to medical treatment should be recorded in the custody record itself.

Modifies a noun

  • modality: Only when treatable causes have been excluded should other treatment modalities for chronic pain be considered.

Noun used with modifier

  • sewage: At Newton Abbott, a recent contract called for the removal of a pen stock wall in a sewage treatment plant.

Preposition: of

  • cancer: The aim of our research is to improve the understanding, management and treatment of prostate cancer.

Preposition: with

  • antibiotic: This is a medical emergency and needs urgent treatment with antibiotics.
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Medical men all over the world having merely entered into a tacit agreement to call all sorts of maladies people are liable to, in cold weather, by one name; so that one sort of treatment may serve for all, and their practice thereby be greatly simplified.

-Carlyle,Jane Baillie ne¤  e Jane Baillie Welsh

A Suitable Case forTreatment.

-Mercer, David

   If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.

-Plato

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