What does treatment mean?

Definitions for treatment
ˈtrit mənttreat·ment

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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. Lawrence Brown:

    I see a lot of new faces, we have a facility for substance abuse treatment. If they need it we have a caseworker.

  2. Mary Scollay:

    I certainly think the transfer of medical information from the previous ownership to the claimant is important, i am confident that the new authority will require treatment reporting into some sort of a database. Hopefully that would be on a national basis.

  3. Chyke Doubeni:

    Don't take no for an answer, people should not be ashamed to have to seek treatment for monkeypox. It has nothing to do with them as a person per se. We can control this outbreak and keep it from running out of control. And it's your right to get the answers you need.

  4. Mark Herring:

    While our investigation was spurred by the egregious treatment against Lt. Nazario that we all saw in bodycam footage, we discovered that this incident was indicative of much larger problems within the department.

  5. William Lopez:

    The impotence that I feel makes me want to cry, some people go to sleep while they are in treatment. I do not, because I am scared I will never wake up.

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