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Singular treatment

Plural treatments

treatment (plural treatments)

  1. The process or manner of treating someone or something.
    The change is due largely to the increased availability of antiretroviral treatment.
    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.
  2. Medical care for an illness or injury.
  3. The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
  4. A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
    • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
      Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.

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