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treatment meaning

EN[ˈtɹiːtmənt]
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WTreatment
  • Treatment may refer to:
  • Health or well-being:
  • Medical treatment i.e., medical case management
  • Therapy for any impairment
  • Pain management
  • A particular process or intervention specified in the design of an experiment
  • NounPLtreatmentsSUF-ment
    1. The process or manner of treating someone or something.
      1. He still has nightmares resulting from the treatment he received from his captors.
    2. Medical care for an illness or injury.
      1. A treatment or cure is applied after a medical problem has already started.
      2. Cancer survivors who got radiation treatments as children have nearly twice the risk of developing diabetes as adults.
      3. The change is due largely to the increased availability of antiretroviral treatment.
    3. The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
      1. NC A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
        1. NC (film) A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
          1. OBS entertainment; treat.
          2. More Examples
            1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
              • Our data show that the degradation is injury specific given that no degradation was seen in the unamputated digits subjected to HBO treatment [ …]
              • Open arthrolysis remains the gold standard for treatment of post-traumatic elbow stiffness.
              • Serial ultrasounds and fundoscopic examinations performed during and before treatment were normal.
            2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
              • It is reported that long-term use of bisphosphonates contributes to persistent antifracture and bone mineral density (BMD) increasing effects for 3–5 years after an initial 3–5 years of treatment.
              • Because of the seriousness of the injury the doctor anaesthetises the area before treatment.
              • The authors consider single-stage posterior-only transpedicular debridement, interbody fusion, and instrumentation as a radical treatment.

          Meaning of treatment for the defined word.

          Grammatically, this word "treatment" is a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum.
          • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
            1. Morphemes
              • Suffixes
                • Words by suffix
                  • Words suffixed with -ment
              • Nouns
                • Countable nouns
                  • Singularia tantum
                    • Uncountable nouns
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