What does treatment mean?

Definitions for treatment
ˈtrit mənttreat·ment

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word treatment.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. treatment, interventionnoun

    care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)

  2. treatment, handlingnoun

    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"

  3. treatmentnoun

    a manner of dealing with something artistically

    "his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture"

  4. discussion, treatment, discoursenoun

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. treatmentnoun

    The process or manner of treating someone or something.

  2. treatmentnoun

    Medical care for an illness or injury.

  3. treatmentnoun

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

  4. treatmentnoun

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

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Treatmentnoun

    Usage; manner of using good or bad.

    Etymology: traitment, French.

    Scarce an humour or character which they have not used; all comes wasted to us: and were they to entertain this age, they could not now make such plenteous treatment. Dryden.

    Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Alexander Pope.

ChatGPT

  1. treatment

    Treatment refers to the management and care given to a patient for the purpose of combating a disease, disorder, or injury. This can include various medical interventions such as medication, surgery, therapy, or lifestyle changes aimed at reducing symptoms, curing the condition, or improving the patient's overall health and well-being.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Treatmentnoun

    the act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment

  2. Treatmentnoun

    entertainment; treat

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'treatment' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #785

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'treatment' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2046

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'treatment' in Nouns Frequency: #326

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of treatment in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of treatment in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of treatment in a Sentence

  1. Bei Wu:

    We need to think about increasing awareness of the importance of oral health, and we also need to think about preventive treatment and dentures.

  2. Charles Blanke:

    Doctors are obligated to help patients in ways likely to make a difference in their quality of life – controlling pain, improving mood, addressing sleeplessness, etc. – and should offer chemotherapy only as a last resort for those who still want it after true informed consent as to the unlikelihood of it doing any good, doctors need to emphasize they will not abandon the patient with end-stage disease, and that there are ways to help that are not ‘ active treatment, ’.

  3. Nathan Hawkshaw:

    We are looking at using it as a topical treatment, a gel or shampoo that could reach the follicle.

  4. Alex Azar:

    There are so many stories of Americans with serious mental illness, and their families, that end in tragic outcomes because treatment options are not available or not paid for, more treatment options are needed, and that includes more inpatient and residential options that can help stabilize Americans with serious mental illness.

  5. The University of Chicago:

    Partial data from an ongoing clinical trial is by definition incomplete and should never be used to draw conclusions about the safety or efficacy of a potential treatment that is under investigation, in this case, information from an internal forum for research colleagues concerning work in progress was released without authorization. Drawing any conclusions at this point is premature and scientifically unsound.

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