treatment

English

Etymology

treat +‎ -ment. Compare French traitement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹiːtmənt/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: treat‧ment

Noun

treatment (countable and uncountable, plural treatments)

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

   He still has nightmares resulting from the abusive treatment he received from his captors.

3. 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.

4. The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
5. (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, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:

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

6. (countable, film) A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
7. (obsolete) entertainment; treat
   • 1725–1726, Homer, “Book 14”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, and Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:

     Accept such treatment as a swain affords.

Derived terms

• absent treatment
• adjunct treatment
• antitreatment
• biotreatment
• cold treatment
• conservative treatment
• cotreatment
• definitive treatment
• error treatment
• exposure treatment
• flour treatment agent
• give the royal treatment
• hairdryer treatment
• heat treatment
• hydrotreatment
• ill-treatment
• ill treatment
• intensive treatment
• intertreatment
• medication assisted treatment
• medication-assisted treatment
• Nauheim treatment
• nontreatment
• overtreatment
• phototreatment
• phytotreatment
• posttreatment
• pretreatment
• residential treatment
• re-treatment
• retreatment
• scriptment
• self-treatment
• shock treatment
• silent treatment
• subtreatment
• treatment-naïve
• tweakment
• undertreatment
• wilderness treatment center
• window treatment

 

Related terms

• treat

Translations

process or manner of treating

• Afrikaans: behandeling
• Azerbaijani: davranış (az)
• Belarusian: абыхо́джанне n (abyxódžannje)
• Bulgarian: обработка (bg) f (obrabotka), третиране (bg) n (tretirane)
• Catalan: tractament (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 處理／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)
• Indonesian: perlakuan (id)
• Italian: trattamento (it) m
• Japanese: 処理 (ja) (しょり, shori)
• Korean: 대우(待遇) (ko) (dae'u) (for people), 처리(處理) (ko) (cheori) (for objects)
• Kyrgyz: мамиле (ky) (mamile)
• Latin: tractātiō f
• Malay: layanan (ms)
• Malayalam: പെരുമാറ്റം (ml) (perumāṟṟaṁ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: medfart m

  Nynorsk: medfart m

• Persian: درمان (fa) (darmân)
• Polish: traktowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: tratamento (pt) m
• Romanian: tratament (ro)
• Russian: обраще́ние (ru) n (obraščénije), обхожде́ние (ru) n (obxoždénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: tretman (sh), postupanje (sh)
• Slovak: zaobchádzanie
• Spanish: trato (es) m
• Swedish: behandling (sv) c
• Telugu: చికిత్స (te) (cikitsa)
• Ukrainian: зве́рнення n (zvérnennja)

medical care for an illness or injury

• Arabic: عِلَاج (ar) m (ʕilāj), مُعَالَجَة f (muʕālaja)
• 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／治疗 (zh) (zhìliáo)

• Czech: léčba (cs) f
• Danish: behandling (da) c, kur (da) 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)
• Indonesian: penanganan (id)
• Italian: trattamento (it) m, cura (it) f
• Japanese: 治療 (ja) (ちりょう, chiryō)
• 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) (paricaraṇaṁ)
• Maori: maimoatanga
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: эмчилгээ (mn) (emčilgee)

• 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)

preserving or giving particular properties

• Bulgarian: обработка (bg) f (obrabotka)
• Danish: behandling (da) c
• Dutch: behandeling (nl) f
• Finnish: käsittely (fi)
• French: traitement (fr) m
• German: Behandlung (de) f
• Greek: επεξεργασία (el) f (epexergasía), κατεργασία (el) f (katergasía)
• Hungarian: kezelés (hu)
• Italian: trattamento (it)
• Portuguese: tratamento (pt) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: tretiranje n

• Slovak: spracovanie
• Spanish: tratamiento (es) m
• Tagalog: sampawan

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• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} behandeling (nl)

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