| treat | 1. To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly. 2. To discourse on; to handle in a particular manner, in writing or speaking; as, to treat a subject diffusely. 3. To entertain with food or drink, especially the latter, as a compliment, or as an expression of friendship or regard; as, to treat the whole company. 4. To negotiate; to settle; to make terms for. "To treat the peace, a hundred senators Shall be commissioned." (Dryden) 5. <medicine> To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient. 6. To subject to some action; to apply something to; as, to treat a substance with sulphuric acid. 7. To entreat; to beseech. Origin: OE. Treten, OF. Traitier, F. Traiter, from L. Tractare to draw violently, to handle, manage, treat, v. Intens. From trahere, tractum, to draw. See Trace, and cf. Entreat, Retreat, Trait. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| treatment | Medical or surgical management of a patient. See: therapy, therapeutics. Origin: Fr. Traitement (see treat) (05 Mar 2000) |
| treatment card | <dentistry> A sheet of paper or special index card used to record your treatment progress. (08 Jan 1998) |
| treatment denture | A dental prosthesis used for the purpose of treating or conditioning the tissues which are called upon to support and retain a denture base. (05 Mar 2000) |
| treatment failure | A measure of the quality of health care by assessing the unsuccessful results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| treatment ind | An FDA-approved program that allows a physician to procure an experimental drug for seriously ill patients who have no other treatment options in exchange for data on the safety and perhaps the effectiveness of the drug. See: compassionate use, parallel track, expanded access. (09 Oct 1997) |
| treatment outcome | Studies undertaken to assess the results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease in order to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, safety, practicability, etc., of these interventions. (12 Dec 1998) |
| treatment protocol program | An FDA initiative to allow terminally ill patients to be given experimental drugs. (14 Nov 1997) |
| treatment refusal | Refusal of a person to accept medical or psychiatric treatment or his unwillingness to comply with the physician's instructions or prescribed regimens. In the case of a legally incompetent person the concept may include a third party authorised to make decisions on his behalf. (12 Dec 1998) |
| refusal to treat | Refusal of the health professional to initiate or continue treatment of a patient or group of patients. The refusal can be based on any reason. The concept is differentiated from patient refusal of treatment see treatment refusal which originates with the patient and not the health professional. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| Johnson, Treat Baldwin | <person> U.S. Chemist, 1875-1947. See: Wheeler-Johnson test. (05 Mar 2000) |