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