treatment

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The act, manner, or method of handling or dealing with someone or something: "the right to equal treatment in the criminal and juvenile justice system” ( Susan C. Ross).
2. n. Informal The usual methods of dealing with a given situation: gave the opposing team the treatment.
3. n. Administration or application of remedies to a patient or for a disease or injury; medicinal or surgical management; therapy.
4. n. The substance or remedy so applied.
5. n. A written sketch outlining the plot, characters, and action for a screenplay but not including certain elements of a finished screenplay, such as camera directions and dialogue.
6. n. An adaptation of a novel or other literary work that serves as the basis for a screenplay.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act or the manner of treating, in any sense.

Wiktionary

1. n. The process or manner of treating someone or something.
2. n. Medical care for an illness or injury.
3. n. The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
4. n. countable A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
5. n. countable, film A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
6. n. obsolete entertainment; treat

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage.
2. n. obsolete Entertainment; treat.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the management of someone or something
2. n. an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic
3. n. care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
4. n. a manner of dealing with something artistically