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treatment 1. (Medicine) the application of medicines, surgery, psychotherapy, etc, to a patient or to a disease or symptom. 2. the manner of handling or dealing with a person or thing, as in a literary or artistic work. 3. the act, practice, or manner of treating. 4. (Film) films an expansion of a script into sequence form, indicating camera angles, dialogue, etc. 5. the treatment slang the usual manner of dealing with a particular type of person (esp in the phrase give someone the (full) treatment)
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Definitions &Translations Pharmacotherapy definition, the treatment of disease through the administration of drugs. See more.
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- Medical Definition of Diagnosis. Diagnosis: 1 The nature of a disease; the identification of an illness. 2 A conclusion or decision reached by diagnosis. The diagnosis is rabies. 3 The identification of any problem. The diagnosis was a plugged IV. The word diagnosis comes directly from the Greek, but the meaning has been changed.
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- Synonyms for treatmentˈtrit mənt. treatment, intervention(noun) care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) Synonyms: handling, intercession, interference, discourse, interposition, discussion, treatment, intervention.
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treatment synonym, treatment definition | Thesaurus 1 n-var Treatment is medical attention given to a sick or injured person or animal. Many patients are not getting the medical treatment they need., ...an effective treatment for eczema. 2 n-uncount Your treatment of someone is the way you behave towards them or deal with them.
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intervention A planned, often unannounced meeting with a person with a serious personal problem, such as addiction, in order to persuade the person to seek treatment. 1  American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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empirical treatment Empirical treatment. Medical treatment that is given on the basis of the doctor's observations and experience. Mentioned in: Enterobacterial Infections. treatment. management and care of a patient or the combating of disease or disorder.
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- The definition of a remedy is a way of correcting something or is a treatment given for an illness or medical condition. 1  An example of remedy is when you say you are sorry for an argument. 2  An example of remedy is an antibiotic for a bacterial infection.
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Treatment Solutions Drug and Alcohol Treatment Terms and Definitions The evaluation and treatment of people suffering from the disease drug addiction, alcoholism and associated disorders. Addiction treatment. The attempt by one or more people to cause another person to discontinue their use of drugs, alcohol or harmful behavior.
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Cure For other uses, see Cure (disambiguation). A cure is the end of a medical condition; the substance or procedure that ends the medical condition, such as a medication, a surgical operation, a change in lifestyle, or even a philosophical mindset that helps end a person's sufferings; or the state of being healed, or cured.
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treatment 3. the act, practice, or manner of treating. 4. (Film) films an expansion of a script into sequence form, indicating camera angles, dialogue, etc. 5. the treatment the usual manner of dealing with a particular type of person (esp in the phrase give someone the (full) treatment). (ˈtrit mənt). n.
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- window treatment. Definition. Any of a variety of decorations and coverings for windows, including draperies, blinds, curtains, and their hardware.
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Pharmacotherapy Pharmacotherapy is therapy using pharmaceutical drugs, as distinguished from therapy using surgery (surgical therapy), radiation (radiation therapy), movement (physical therapy), or other modes. Among physicians, sometimes the term medical therapy refers specifically to pharmacotherapy as opposed to surgical or other therapy; for example, in oncology, medical oncology is thus distinguished from surgical oncology.
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Drug therapy Medication Edit. A medication is a drug taken to cure and reduce any symptoms of an illness or medical condition, or may be used as preventive medicine that has future benefits but does not treat any existing or pre-existing diseases or symptoms.linical: Approaches · Group therapy · Techniques · Types of problem · Areas of specialism · Taxonomies · Therapeutic issues · Modes of delivery · Model translation project · Personal experiences ·. Drug therapy or medication is a medicine, drug or other substance used to prevent or cure disease or to relieve pain.
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cure cure. 1  a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy. 2  a method or course of remedial treatment, as for disease. 3  successful remedial treatment; restoration to health. 4  a means of correcting or relieving anything that is troublesome or detrimental: to seek a cure for inflation.
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therapy correction - treatment of a specific defect; the correction of his vision with eye glasses. electric healing, electrical healing, electrotherapy, galvanism - the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis)
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- remedies. 1  1 : a medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease. 2  2 : something that corrects or counteracts. 3  3 : the legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
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Medication A pharmaceutical drug (also referred to as medicine, medication, or simply as drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease. Drug therapy (pharmacotherapy) is an important part of the medical field and relies on the science of pharmacology for continual advancement and on pharmacy for appropriate management.
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surgery The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of injury, deformity, and disease by the use of instruments. 2. a. Treatment based on such medicine, typically involving the removal or replacement of diseased tissue by cutting: The athlete had surgery on his knee.
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Summit Medical Group Web Site Rehabilitation (also called rehab) is a treatment program to help you recover from an illness or injury. It helps you relearn the skills of everyday life. You may learn new ways to: Eat, cook, dress, or bathe.
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prophylactic treatment prophylactic treatment. Definition: the institution of measures designed to protect a person from an attack of a disease to which the person has been or is liable to be exposed. Synonym(s): preventive treatment. Search Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Examples: glitazone, GI cocktail, etc.
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- Ambulatory Care. Ambulatory care or ambulatory treatment refers to care being provided outside the hospital. It is another term for outpatient. In ambulatory care settings, the patients come for treatment and are not admitted as inpatients to a hospital.
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treatment 1 An example of treatment is when you are given antibiotics for your illness. 2  act, manner, method, etc. of treating, or dealing with, a person, thing, subject in art or literature, etc.  medical, surgical, or cosmetic care, esp. a systematic course of this.
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Film treatment Film treatment. A film treatment (or simply treatment) is a piece of prose, typically the step between scene cards (index cards) and the first draft of a screenplay for a motion picture, television program, or radio play.
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therapy 1. the treatment of disease or disorders, as by some remedial, rehabilitative, or curative process: speech therapy. 2. psychotherapy. 3. a curative power or quality. 4. any act, task, program, etc., that relieves tension.
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remedy -dies, n. 1. something, as a medicine, that cures or relieves a disease or bodily disorder. 2. something that corrects or removes an evil, error, or undesirable condition. 3. legal redress; the legal means of enforcing a right or redressing a wrong.