treatment Hear it!

treatment Definition

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

treatment Synonyms

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.

treatment Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • receive: Our people are unable to receive the hospital treatment they need.
  • undergo: Currently there are 274 cholera patients undergoing treatment in the central hospital.
  • refuse: Plans to give young people aged 16 or 17 the right to refuse treatment have also been dropped.

Adjective modifier

  • medical: However, key points relevant to medical treatment should be recorded in the custody record itself.
  • favorable: For example, the favorable tax treatment may not be maintained.
  • dental: Most dental treatment for children is free through the National Health Service.
  • effective: Without long term research we are never going to find a cure or effective treatments.
  • surgical: Some patients need surgical treatment for tissue swelling if this is severe.
  • equal: The EPA does not apply to occupational pensions, but rights to equal treatment are contained in the Pensions Act 1995.

Modifies a noun

  • modality: Only when treatable causes have been excluded should other treatment modalities for chronic pain be considered.
  • regimen: Add erythromycin, with or without rifampicin, or co-trimoxazole to the treatment regimen.
  • option: In the next edition of Stress News the authors will go on to discuss treatment options.

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.
  • drug: Health insurance in illinois in welfare caseload the welfare caseload or drug abuse treatment.
  • wastewater: Fuel cells today are running on many different fuels, even gas from landfills and wastewater treatment plants.
  • fertility: The aim of the HFEA is to bring the number of multiple births from fertility treatment closer to that which occurs naturally.
  • beauty: You can choose to relax with a wide range of spa, health and beauty treatments.
  • cancer: Fatigue for people having cancer treatment can be very frustrating.

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.
treatment Quotes

   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

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

There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.

—Shaw, George Bernard

A Suitable Case forTreatment.

—Mercer, David

Der Philosoph behandelt eine Frage wie eine Krankheit. The philosopher's treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness.

—Wittgenstein, LudwigJosef Johann