treatment has definitions from the field of medicine
1
[ noun ] (medicine) care by procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury

Used in print

(Successful Farming, 59:12...)

Increases rate of gain and improves feed efficiency , aids in the prevention or treatment ( depending_on level fed ) of the early stages of shipping_fever , prevents or treats bacterial diarrhea , and aids in reducing incidence of bloat and liver abscesses .

For the treatment of bacterial scours , feed 100 - 200 grams .

For prevention or treatment of bacterial scours , feed 0.1 to 5 milligrams per pound of body_weight daily .

For the prevention or treatment of the early stages of shipping_fever complex , increase feeding level to 0.5 to 2 grams per head per day .

For treatment of shipping_fever , this level should be fed at the onset of the disease symptoms until symptoms disappear .

2
[ noun ] the management of someone or something

Synonyms

handling

Examples

"the handling of prisoners" or "the treatment of water sewage" "the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system"

Used in print

(St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)

The truth is , though , that men react differently to different treatment .

(The Providence Journal...)

Such fascinating novelties in the score as the fugual treatment of `` On_the_Side_of_the_Angels '' and `` Politics_and_Poker '' were handled splendidly , and I thought Rudy_Bond and his band of tuneful ward-heelers made `` Little_Tin_Box '' even better than it was done by the New_York cast ; all the words of its clever lyrics came_through with perfect clarity .

(A. N. Nagaraj and L. M. Black, "Localization of...)

Treatment of all the sera with sweet_clover proteins greatly reduced nonspecific fluorescence , especially when the treated conjugate was diluted to 1 : 2 with 0.85 % saline .

In_addition to other treatments , treating the sections with normal sheep serum for half an hour before layering * * f did not reduce nonspecific staining .

The only treatment by which nonspecific staining could be satisfactorily removed was by passing the conjugate through a DEAE-cellulose column .

3
[ noun ] a manner of dealing with something artistically

Examples

"his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture"

Used in print

(Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)

Whenever artists , indeed , turned_to actual representations or molded three-dimensional_figures , which were rare down to 800 B.C. , they tended to reflect reality ( see Plate 6a , 9b ) ; a schematic , abstract treatment of men and animals , by intent , rose only in the late eighth century .

Related terms

artistic_style

4
[ noun ] an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic

Examples

"the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic" "his treatment of the race question is badly biased"

Used in print

(Newton Stallknecht, "Ideas and Literature," in Newton S...)

Usually the work studied offers us a special or even an individualized rendering or treatment of the ideas in_question , so that the student finds it necessary to distinguish carefully between the several expressions of an `` - ism '' or mode of thought .

(Raymond J. Corsini et al., Roleplaying in Business...)

We may say that his problem was diagnosed but that he refused treatment .

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