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Treatment

Meaning in medicine, with examples

/ˈtriːtmənt/nounCore term

In medicine, treatment means: The care, medicine, surgery or other help given to a patient to cure an illness, control it or ease its symptoms.

In Turkish: tedavi, sağaltım

How it is used

A general word used everywhere in medicine. Doctors start, stop, change or continue treatment, and talk about first-line treatment, treatment options and response to treatment. The verb is treat.

Example sentences

  1. She responded well to treatment and was discharged after four days.

  2. Let's talk about the treatment options before you decide.

  3. Treatment was started without waiting for the culture results.

Common collocations

  • start treatment
  • first-line treatment
  • respond to treatment
  • treatment options
  • treatment plan
  • managementIn clinical English, the overall plan for dealing with a patient's problem, including tests, treatment, monitoring and follow-up.
  • diagnosisThe decision about which disease or condition is causing a patient's problems, reached after taking a history, examining the patient and doing tests.
  • courseA set number of doses of a medicine, or sessions of treatment, given over a fixed period; also the way an illness develops over time.
  • prescribeTo officially decide on and write down a medicine or treatment for a patient, so that they can get it from a pharmacy.
  • surgeryTreatment in which a doctor cuts into the body to repair, remove or replace something; also the medical specialty that does this.

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