treatment

plural treatments

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

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

2. countableuncountableMedical care for an illness or injury.

   A treatment or cure is applied after a medical problem has already started.

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   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.

   Synonyms: course

3. countableuncountableThe use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
4. countableA 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.

   1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii

5. countablebroadcastingA brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
6. countableobsoleteuncountableentertainment; treat

   Accept such treatment as a swain affords.

   1725–1726, Homer, “Book 14”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC

7. countableeuphemisticuncountableharsh punishment; retribution

   He’s been a naughty boy, so give him a good treatment.

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   Even if you supported the socialist regime, your class background often meant you were going to get the treatment regardless.