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countable and uncountable, plural treatments
The process or manner of treating someone or something. examples
Medical care for an illness or injury. examples
The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something. examples
(countable) A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject. quotations examples
Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, page vii
(countable, film) A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film. examples
(obsolete) entertainment; treat quotations
Accept such treatment as a swain affords.
1725–1726, Homer, “Book 14”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, and Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot