Treatment vs Rectification - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between treatment and rectification

is that treatment is the process or manner of treating someone or something while rectification is the action or process of rectifying.

The process or manner of treating someone or something.

He still has nightmares resulting from the treatment he received from his captors.

(senseid)Medical care for an illness or injury.

A treatment or cure is applied after a medical problem has already started.

Cancer survivors who got radiation treatments as children have nearly twice the risk of developing diabetes as adults.

The change is due largely to the increased availability of antiretroviral treatment .

The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.

(countable) A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.

Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.

(countable, film) A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.

(obsolete) entertainment; treat

* (rfdate) Alexander Pope

Accept such treatment as a swain affords.

* silent treatment

(wikipedia rectification)

(en noun)

The action or process of rectifying.

the rectification''' of an error; the '''rectification of spirits

* De Quincey

After the rectification of his views, he was incapable of compromise with profounder shapes of error.

(geometry) The determination of a straight line whose length is equal to a portion of a curve.

(astronomy) The adjustment of a globe preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.

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