"treatment" in the noun sense
1. treatment, intervention
care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
2. treatment, handling
the management of someone or something
"the handling of prisoners"
"the treatment of water sewage"
"the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system"
3. treatment
a manner of dealing with something artistically
"his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture"
4. discussion, treatment, discourse
an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic
"the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic"
"his treatment of the race question is badly biased"
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