Meaning of TREATMENT
| Pronunciation: | | 'treetmunt
|
 WordNet Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |
- [n] care by procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury
- [n] 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"
- [n] a manner of dealing with something artistically; "his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture"
- [n] 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"
|
| |
| | Websites: | |
|
| |
| | Synonyms: | | discourse, discussion, handling |
| |
| | See Also: | | acupressure, acupuncture, aid, artistic style, attention, autogenic therapy, autogenic training, autogenics, bioremediation, care, chiropractic, communicating, communication, consideration, curative, cure, dealing, detail, detoxification, dilation, direction, elaboration, enlargement, expansion, fomentation, G-Jo, hydropathy, hydrotherapy, idiom, management, medical aid, medical care, modality, naprapathy, naturopathy, orthodontic treatment, orthoptics, osteoclasis, osteopathy, relaxant, remedy, rest-cure, shiatsu, short shrift, stylostixis, talk, tending | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | | \Treat"ment\, n. [Cf. F. traitement. See {Treat}.]
1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation;
handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.
2. Entertainment; treat. [Obs.]
Accept such treatment as a swain affords. --Pope.
|
| |
| | Websites: | |
|
| |
|
|