treatment
n.
medical care, therapy, care; relation, attitude, behavior; handling, usage; artistic or stylistic handling
Treatment
treatment
Noun
1. care by procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury
(hypernym) care, attention, aid, tending
(hyponym) medical care, medical aid
(part-meronym) remedy, curative, cure
(derivation) treat, care for
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"
(synonym) handling
(hypernym) management, direction
(hyponym) bioremediation
(derivation) process, treat
3. a manner of dealing with something artistically; "his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture"
(hypernym) artistic style, idiom
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"
(synonym) discussion, discourse
(hypernym) communication, communicating
(hyponym) detail
(derivation) cover, treat, handle, plow, deal, address
Treatment
(n.)
The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.
(n.)
Entertainment; treat.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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TREATMENT
Something done to help with a health problem. For example, medicine and surgery are treatments.