What does treatment mean?
Word: Treatment
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Treatment means medical care given to a sick or injured person. It can also mean the way you behave towards someone.
Synonyms: care
How do you spell treatment?
Syllables: treat - ment
Tricky part: The ee sound in the first part is spelt ea, as in treat and eat. Students who spell it by sound write treetment or tritment.
Watch out for: treetment, tritment
Memory tip: A treatment is the way a doctor treats you, so the whole of treat comes first.
Treatment in a sentence
Example 1: Grandpa went to Chennai for treatment of his eyes.
Example 2: The stray dog got treatment at the animal hospital.
Example 3: Our cat gets special treatment on her birthday: a bowl of warm milk.
Fun Fact
Treat comes from the Latin tractare, which meant to handle or deal with, so a treatment is really the way something is handled.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
treat
a) mint
b) meant
c) mant
d) ment
Show answer
d) ment. Ment turns the verb treat into a noun, as in agreement.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) bandage
b) presciption
c) treatment
d) medicine
Show answer
b) presciption. Prescription needs an r after the sc, pre-scrip-tion; the other three are correct.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The treatment for Papa's back pain included gentle stretches every mornning.
a) gentle
b) mornning
c) treatment
d) stretches
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b) mornning. Morning has one n in the middle.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
treatment
a) therapy
b) illness
c) injury
d) symptom
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a) therapy. Therapy is treatment that helps someone get better; an illness, a symptom and an injury are what it treats.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who would give treatment for a toothache?
a) an optician
b) a vet
c) a pilot
d) a dentist
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d) a dentist
2. In which sentence does treatment mean the way people behave towards someone?
a) The treatment for his cough worked well.
b) Grandma's knee treatment took a month.
c) She went to the clinic for treatment.
d) The players complained about unfair treatment.
Show answer
d) The players complained about unfair treatment.
