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Another word for treatment

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Noun

  1. The systematic application of remedies to effect a cure

    See also:

    health

    help

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Another word for treatment

Noun

  1. Usage

      1. A touching, feeling, or manipulating with the hands.
      2. The act or an instance of touching, moving, etc. with the hands
      3. The way in which a presentation, especially an artistic or theatrical work, is treated.
      1. The action of the verb to process.
      2. The act of taking something through a set of prescribed procedures.
      1. The act of one who deals; distribution
      2. Method or manner of conduct in relation to others; treatment:
      3. Way of acting toward others
      1. The method used in dealing with or accomplishing:
      2. An advance or overture made by one person to another.
      3. A way or means of reaching something; an access:
      1. The manner of doing or producing something, as of performing a piece of music or a role in a play
      2. (Law) A writ or order, issued by a court, giving authority to put a judgment into effect
      3. The manner, style, or result of performance:
      1. The act, method, or manner of proceeding in some action; esp., the sequence of steps to be followed
      2. (--- Law) The set of rules under which litigation is conducted, especially in contrast to the set of substantive legal principles that determine the merits of legal controversies and disputes.
      3. A manner of proceeding; a way of performing or effecting something:
      1. The procedures and techniques characteristic of a particular discipline or field of knowledge:
      2. Regularity and orderliness in action, thought, or expression; system in doing things or handling ideas
      3. A way of doing something; procedure; process; esp., a regular, orderly, definite procedure or way of teaching, investigating, etc.
      1. Kind; sort:
      2. The prevailing customs, social conduct, and norms of a specific society, period, or group, especially as the subject of a literary work:
      3. A way of acting; personal, esp. customary, behavior or bearing
      1. A sequence of events occurring at a particular place or occasion:
      2. A particular action or course of action
      3. An advancing or going on with what one has been doing
      1. An aspect, particular, or feature:
      2. A route or course that is or may be used to go from one place to another
      3. Used with a personal pronoun as the object of various verbs to indicate progress toward an objective:
      1. The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.
      2. A plan of action resulting from strategy or intended to accomplish a specific goal.
      3. A stratagem or the artful use of stratagems
      1. Habitual patronage, as of a store:
      2. A habitual practice of a person:
      3. A usual practice or habitual way of behaving; habit
      1. A distinctive set of clothing or style of dressing, especially of a religious order.
      2. A thing done often and hence, usually, done easily; practice; custom
      3. A tendency to perform a certain action or behave in a certain way; usual way of doing something
      1. The number or percentage of persons gainfully employed
      2. (Archaic) Purpose to which something is put
      3. The thing at which one is employed; work; occupation; profession; job
      1. The business of a professional person:
      2. The act or process of doing something; performance or action:
      3. A habitual or customary action or way of doing something:
      1. (Philosophy) The particular appearance, form, or manner in which an underlying substance, or a permanent aspect or attribute of it, is manifested.
      2. A patterned arrangement, as the one characteristic of the music of classical Greece or the medieval Christian Church.
      3. A manner or way of acting, doing, or being; method or form
      1. A sequence of related things that leads to a certain ending:
      2. One's trade, occupation, or field of interest:
      3. A row of written or printed characters extending across or part way across a page
      1. An aspect, as of something viewed or considered; point of view
      2. The place, position, or direction from which an object is presented to view:
      3. A member of a Germanic tribe first mentioned by Tacitus, one of several which invaded Britain and merged to become the Anglo-Saxons.

  2. Assistance toward a cure

      1. Any specific plan, project, venture, etc.
      2. (Mathematics) A process or action, such as addition, substitution, transposition, or differentiation, performed in a specified sequence and in accordance with specific rules.
      3. Any surgical procedure performed, usually with the aid of instruments, to remedy a physical ailment or defect
      1. The treatment of disease, injury, or deformity by manual or instrumental operations, as the removal of diseased parts or tissue by cutting
      2. The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of injury, deformity, and disease by the use of instruments.
      3. Treatment based on such medicine, typically involving the removal or replacement of diseased tissue by cutting:
      1. Healing power or quality:
      2. Treatment of illness, injury, or disability.
      3. The treatment of disease or of any physical or mental disorder by medical or physical means
      1. (Law) A means, as court action, by which violation of a right is prevented or compensated for; legal redress
      2. Any medicine or treatment that cures, heals, or relieves a disease or bodily disorder or tends to restore health
      3. Something, such as a drug or a bandage, that is used to treat a symptom, disease, injury, or other condition.
      1. A doctor's written direction for the preparation and use of medicine, the grinding of lenses for eyeglasses, etc.
      2. A prescribed medicine or other treatment:
      3. A written order, especially by a physician, for the preparation and administration of a medicine or other treatment.
      1. (Archaic) Governmental rule or control.
      2. A procedure, program, or routine:
      3. A regulated system, as of medication, diet, or exercise, used to promote health or treat illness or injury.
      1. The condition of being hospitalized.
      2. Insurance providing for payment of hospital expenses for the insured and, usually, members of the immediate family
      3. The act of placing a person in a hospital as a patient.
      1. A medicine; substance for curing or healing, or for relieving pain
      2. A drug or other substance used to treat disease or injury; a medicine.
      3. The act or process of treating a patient with medicine:
      1. Breastfeeding
      2. The process or profession of caring for patients as a nurse.
      3. The medical care given by a nurse
      1. Treatment by a doctor.
    See also:

    medicine

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Sentence Examples

  • I need a diagnosis, and I need a treatment plan to combat this illness.

  • She did enjoy the special treatment and the way he stuck up for her.

  • After all, how can asking for the same treatment it gives all others be bad?

  • She doubted he saw anything wrong with the treatment he was accustomed to.

  • The treatment is symptomatic, there being no specific antidote.

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