1. (

• treatment ,
• intervention ,

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

2. (

• treatment ,
• handling ,

) 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" ;

3. (

• treatment

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

4. (

• discussion ,
• treatment ,
• discourse

) 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" ;