The process or manner of treating someone or something. / Medical care for an illness or injury. / The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.

plural of treatment

(psychology) The process of destimulation via gradual exposure to the stimulus, so that the reaction eventually becomes neutral.

(idiomatic) A form of social sanction that consists of ignoring a particular individual, neither speaking to that person nor responding to his or her words.

bad, unkind or abusive treatment

(medicine) A treatment that does not include any operation or intervention.

(idiomatic) Cold shoulder. / (idiomatic) Silent treatment.

plural of cold treatment

Treatment that ignores the presence of a person; cold shoulder.

plural of self-treatment