Noun

Singular treatment

Plural treatments

treatment (plural treatments)

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

   The change is due largely to the increased availability of antiretroviral treatment.

   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.

2. Medical care for an illness or injury.
3. The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
4. A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii

     Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.

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Treatment

Treatment is most often used to mean a process of modifying or altering something, and depending on context may be used in an unqualified form to refer to any of the following:

• A type of therapy used to remedy a health problem
• Experimental treatment, the levels of treatment factor(s) (variables controlled by the experimenter) applied
• Water treatment
• Sewage treatment
• Surface treatment or surface finishing, processes used to improve the surface of a manufactured item
• National treatment, economic term for the principle that foreigners and domestic nationals are treated equally

It may also refer to:

• A film treatment is prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay
• A Dutch metalcore band
• A North London psychedelic band
• A legendary political tactic that Senate Majority Leader, and later President Lyndon Baines Johnson used to get Congress to support certain policy initiatives, notably Medicare, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.