treatment

The process or manner of treating someone or something.countableuncountable

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

Medical care for an illness or injury.countableuncountable

• 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 use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.countableuncountable

A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.countable

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

A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.countable

entertainment; treatcountableobsoleteuncountable

• Accept such treatment as a swain affords.

harsh punishment; retributioncountableeuphemisticuncountable

• He’s been a naughty boy, so give him a good treatment.
• Even if you supported the socialist regime, your class background often meant you were going to get the treatment regardless.