to treat
- verb
- /trit/
- But how do we in our culture treat anorexia?
- treat patients
- diagnose and treat
- treat with antibiotics
And I really didn't want to treat patients with addiction.
- And I really didn't want to treat patients with addiction.
- It's the only mental thing that we treat via the body.
- And then I realized that we were treating diseases, not health.
- This is where I treat patients and do my work.
- OK, so there is a real danger to not treating ADHD during childhood.
- And once the vein is treated, will it be gone for good?
- These drugs were originally developed to treat people with diabetes.
- Marjorie Taylor Green introduces bill to put doctors who treat trans kids in jail.
- Lady Liza says, how does someone treat acne when they have dry skin?
- So can virtual reality help treat your chronic pain and anxiety?
- We can't just assume everyone has a disease and treat them accordingly.
- But it's it's it's it's treated away fairly quickly.
- We've gotten way better at treating preterm birth our job.
Examples
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The doctor will treat my condition with the latest medication available.
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Doctors have this saying, you know, treat the patient, not just the disease.
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This is where I treat patients and do my work.
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City General will only treat people without insurance, so...
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We've been trained to treat the broken thought first.
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Neuropathic pain can be very difficult to treat, and not all patients achieve even partial relief.
Academic text (2012) -
Start a calcium channel blocker, as these are used to treat hypertension in the over 55s.
Academic text (2015) -
CAPNETZ is a multidisciplinary approach to better understand and treat patients with community-acquired pneumonia.
Academic text (2015) -
Emergency responders are trained to treat injuries at accident scenes immediately.
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Veterinarians treat sick animals to help them recover from illnesses.
Synonyms
Look after a sick or injured person and give them needed help
Give medicine to a person or animal to treat an illness
To give medical help to someone
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
Give someone very special care and attention like a king or queen
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Baby Talk
An activity where children go from house to house asking for sweets on Halloween
How Intensive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Treat comes from an old word meaning 'to handle' or 'care for', from the same root tract as tractor. So to treat a patient is to 'handle' their illness with care and medical action to help them get better.