treatment

Plural

treatments

1. 1.The process or manner of treating someone or something.

   • He still has nightmares resulting from the abusive treatment he received from his captors.

2. 2.Medical care for an illness or injury.

   • A treatment or cure is applied after a medical problem has already started.
   • The change is due largely to the increased availability of antiretroviral treatment.
   • Cancer survivors who got radiation treatments as children have nearly twice the risk of developing diabetes as adults.

3. 3.The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.

4. 4.A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.

   • Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.

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By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Rare

General reading & writing

Common

Academic

Common

Literature

Rare

Synonyms

• intervention

Word family

• treat