Dictionary Definition
treatment
Noun
1 care by procedures or applications that are
intended to relieve illness or injury
2 the management of someone or something; "the
handling of prisoners"; "the treatment of water sewage"; "the right
to equal treatment in the criminal justice system" [syn: handling]
3 a manner of dealing with something
artistically; "his treatment of space borrows from Italian
architecture"
4 an extended communication (often interactive)
dealing with some particular topic; "the book contains an excellent
discussion of modal logic"; "his treatment of the race question is
badly biased" [syn: discussion, discourse]
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Pronunciation
Noun
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Translations
medical care for an illness or injury
preserving or giving particular properties
- Finnish: käsittely
- ttbc Dutch: behandeling
- ttbc French: traitement
- ttbc German: Behandlung
- ttbc Greek: αγωγή (agoge) , θεραπευτική αγωγή (therapeftike agoge)
- ttbc Spanish: tratamiento
Extensive Definition
Treatment may refer to:
In health:
- Therapy, the act of remediation of a health problem, which could include:
In the arts:
- Film treatment, a prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay
In science:
- In ecology, a subset of an experimental design where variables are manipulated by the experimenter
- Water treatment
- Sewage treatment
- Surface finishing, a number of industrial processes that can be applied to improve the surface of a manufactured item
Treatment may also refer to:
treatment in French: Traitement
treatment in Romanian: Tratament
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
airing,
analysis, arrangement, article, atmosphere, balance, basic training,
briefing, brushwork, buzz session,
canvassing, care, causerie, clearing the decks,
colloquium, color, composition, conference, consideration, curative
measures, cure, curing, custodianship, debate, debating, deliberation, descant, design, dialectic, dialogue, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, draftsmanship, equipment, essay, etude, examination, exchange of
views, excursus,
exposition, familiarization,
feature, first aid,
first approach, fixing,
forum, foundation, groundwork, grouping, handling, healing, healing arts, homily, hospitalization,
introductory study, investigation, joint
discussion, line, logical
analysis, logical discussion, lucubration, makeready, making ready,
management, manufacture, means of
dealing, medical care, medical treatment, medicamentation,
medication, medicines, memoir, mobilization, monograph, morceau, note, open discussion, open forum,
outline, painterliness, pandect, panel discussion,
paper, paragraph, perspective, piece, planning, prearrangement, preliminaries, preliminary, preliminary
act, preliminary step, preliminary study, prep, preparation, preparatory
study, preparing,
prepping, prerequisite, pretreatment, processing, prolegomenon, propaedeutic, provision, psychotherapy, rap, rap session, readying, regime, regimen, research paper,
review, screed, seminar, shading, shadow, sketch, spadework, special article,
stewardship,
study, survey, symposium, technique, term paper,
theme, therapeusis, therapeutics, therapy, thesis, tone, town meeting, tract, tractate, training, treatise, trial, tryout, usage, values, ventilation,
warm-up