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Treatment

The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.

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Narrower term 23

Acupressure 76% connected

A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left…

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Acupuncture 76% connected

Pricking with a needle; a needle prick.

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Consideration 76% connected

The act or process of considering; continuous careful thought; examination; contemplation; deliberation; attention.

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Correction 76% connected

The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement.

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Dealing 76% connected

of Deal

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Detail 76% connected

A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction.

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Dilation 76% connected

Delay.

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Elaboration 76% connected

The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

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Enlargement 76% connected

The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion.

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Expansion 76% connected

The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.

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Fomentation 76% connected

The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing…

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Galvanism 76% connected

Electricity excited by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; dynamical electricity.

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Hydropathy 76% connected

The water cure; a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally.

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Hydrotherapy 76% connected

See Hydropathy.

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Insolation 76% connected

The act or process to exposing to the rays of the sun fro the purpose of drying or maturing, as fruits, drugs, etc., or of rendering acid, as vinegar.

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Irradiation 76% connected

Act of irradiating, or state of being irradiated.

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Massage 76% connected

A rubbing or kneading of the body, especially when performed as a hygienic or remedial measure.

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Medication 76% connected

The act or process of medicating.

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Modality 76% connected

The quality or state of being modal.

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Osteoclasis 76% connected

The operation of breaking a bone in order to correct deformity.

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Radiation 76% connected

The act of radiating, or the state of being radiated; emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness.

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Refrigeration 76% connected

The act or process of refrigerating or cooling, or the state of being cooled.

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Talk 76% connected

To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

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Aid 76% connected

To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.

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Attention 76% connected

The act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; exclusive or specia…

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Care 76% connected

A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

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Communicating 76% connected

of Communicate

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Communication 76% connected

The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.

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Direction 76% connected

The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public…

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Idiom 76% connected

The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language.

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Management 76% connected

The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as,…

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Tending 76% connected

of Tend

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Care 74% connected

A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

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Care 74% connected

A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

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Curative 70% connected

Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure.

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Cure 70% connected

Care, heed, or attention.

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Remedy 70% connected

That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; -- with for; as, a remedy for t…

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Therapeutic 70% connected

Alt. of Therapeutical

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Synonym 5

Discourse 92% connected

The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of…

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Discussion 92% connected

The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like.

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Handling 92% connected

of Handle

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Intervention 92% connected

The act of intervening; interposition.

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Therapy 92% connected

Therapeutics.

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