treatment

n 1: care by procedures or applications that are intended to

relieve illness or injury

2: the management of someone or something; "the handling of

prisoners" or "the treatment of water sewage"; "the right

to equal treatment in the criminal justice system" [syn: {handling}]

3: a manner of dealing with something artistically; "his

treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture"

4: 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}]