English
Etymology
treat + -ment. Compare French traitement.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɹiːtmənt/
- Hyphenation: treat‧ment
Noun
treatment (countable and uncountable, plural treatments)
- The process or manner of treating someone or something.
He still has nightmares resulting from the treatment he received from his captors.
- Medical care for an illness or injury.
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.
The change is due largely to the increased availability of antiretroviral treatment.
- The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
- (countable) A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page vii:Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
- (countable, film) A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
- (obsolete) entertainment; treat
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- Accept such treatment as a swain affords.
Derived terms
Derived terms
- heat treatment
- ill treatment
- residential treatment
Related terms
Translations
process or manner of treating
- Azerbaijani: davranış (az)
- Belarusian: абыхо́джанне n (abyxódžannje)
- Bulgarian: обработка (bg) f (obrabotka), третиране (bg) n (tretirane)
- Catalan: tractament (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 處理 (zh), 处理 (zh) (chǔlǐ)
- Czech: zacházení n
- Danish: behandling (da) c
- Dutch: behandeling (nl) f
- Esperanto: pritraktado, trakto, traktado
- Finnish: kohtelu (fi) (someone), käsittely (fi) (something)
- French: traitement (fr) m
- Friulian: tratament m
- Galician: tratamento (gl) m
- German: Behandeln n, Behandlung (de) f, Umgang (de) m
- Greek: μεταχείριση (el) f (metacheírisi), συμπεριφορά (el) f (symperiforá), αντιμετώπιση (el) f (antimetópisi)
- Haitian Creole: tretman
- Hungarian: bánásmód (hu)
- Italian: trattamento (it) m
- Japanese: 処理 (ja) (しょり, shori)
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medical care for an illness or injury
- Arabic: عِلَاج m (ʿilāj), مُعَالَجَة f (muʿālaja)
- Aragonese: tractamiento m
- Armenian: բուժում (hy) (bužum), բժշկում (hy) (bžškum)
- Asturian: tratamientu m
- Azerbaijani: müalicə (az)
- Belarusian: лячэ́нне n (ljačénnje)
- Bulgarian: лече́ние (bg) n (lečénie)
- Catalan: tractament (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 治療 (zh), 治疗 (zh) (zhìliáo)
- Czech: léčba (cs) f
- Danish: behandling (da) c, kur c
- Dutch: behandeling (nl) f
- Egyptian: (šsꜣw m)
- Finnish: hoito (fi), kuuri (fi)
- French: traitement (fr) m
- Friulian: tratament m, cure f
- Galician: tratamento (gl) m
- Georgian: მკურნალობა (mḳurnaloba), თერაპია (teraṗia)
- German: Behandlung (de) f
- Greek: αγωγή (el) f (agogí), θεραπεία (el) f (therapeía), θεραπευτική αγωγή f (therapeftikí agogí)
- Ancient: ἰατρεία f (iatreía)
- Haitian Creole: tretman
- Hindi: इलाज (hi) m (ilāj), चिकित्सा (hi) f (cikitsā)
- Hungarian: kezelés (hu), gyógykezelés (hu)
- Ido: terapio (io)
- Italian: trattamento (it) m, cura (it) f
- Japanese: 治療 (ja) (ちりょう, chiryō)
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- Korean: 치료(治療) (ko) (chiryo)
- Latin: curatio f, curatura (la) f
- Macedonian: третма́н m (tretmán), лекување n (lekuvanje)
- Malay: rawatan (ms)
- Malayalam: ചികിത്സ (ml) (cikitsa), ശുശ്രൂഷ (ml) (śuśrūṣa), പരിചരണം (ml) (paricaraṇaṃ)
- Maori: maimoatanga
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: эмчилгээ (mn) (emchilgee)
- Old English: lācnung f
- Persian: درمان (fa) (darmân), علاج (fa) ('elâj)
- Polish: leczenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: tratamento (pt) m
- Romanian: tratament (ro)
- Russian: лече́ние (ru) n (lečénije), терапи́я (ru) f (terapíja)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: лечење n, лијечење n, тера̀пија f, трѐтма̄н m
- Roman: lečenje (sh) n, liječenje n, teràpija (sh) f, trètmān (sh) m
- Slovak: liečba f
- Slovene: zdravljenje n
- Spanish: tratamiento (es) m
- Swahili: matibabu (sw)
- Swedish: behandling (sv) c, kur (sv) c
- Tagalog: sampawan
- Telugu: చికిత్స (te) (cikitsa)
- Tibetan: སྨན་བཅོས (sman bcos)
- Turkish: tedavi (tr)
- Ukrainian: лікува́ння n (likuvánnja)
- Urdu: علاج m ('ilāj)
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preserving or giving particular properties
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