1. The management of someone or something
   "the treatment of water sewage"; "the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system";
   - handling
    
2. Care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
   "The new treatment showed promising results for cancer patients";
   - intervention
    
3. (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.)
   "the quarterback is undergoing treatment for a knee injury"; "he tried every treatment the doctors suggested";
   - therapy
    
4. A manner of dealing with something artistically
   "his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture"
    
5. An extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic
   "his treatment of the race question is badly biased";
   - discussion, discourse

Derived forms: treatments

Type of: aid, artistic style, attention, care, communicating, communication, direction, idiom, management, medical aid, medical care, tending

Encyclopedia: Treatment