care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)

[ Syn: intervention ]

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

[ Syn: handling ]

a manner of dealing with something artistically; his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture'

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

[ Syn: discussion , discourse ]