Etimology
treat + -ment. Compare French traitement.
noun
treatment (countable and uncountable, plural treatments)
The process or manner of treating someone or something.
Medical care for an illness or injury.
The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
(countable) A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
(countable, film) A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
(obsolete) entertainment; treat
Examples
He still has nightmares resulting from the abusive treatment he received from his captors.
A treatment or cure is applied after a medical problem has already started.
Cancer survivors who got radiation treatments as children have nearly twice the risk of developing diabetes as adults.
The change is due largely to the increased availability of antiretroviral treatment.
Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
Accept such treatment as a swain affords.
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