Symptom vs Treatment - What's the difference?
symptom | treatment |
(medicine) A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash.
A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.
The process or manner of treating someone or something.
(senseid)Medical care for an illness or injury.
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.
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(countable, film) A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
(obsolete) entertainment; treat
* (rfdate) Alexander Pope
As nouns the difference between symptom and treatment
is that symptom is symptom, sign while treatment is the process or manner of treating someone or something.symptom
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* indication * manifestation * sign, signal * See alsoAntonyms
* Treatment of symptoms versus treatment of causeDerived terms
* symptomatology * symptomlessExternal links
* * ----treatment
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Noun
- He still has nightmares resulting from the treatment he received from his captors.
- 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 .
- Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
- Accept such treatment as a swain affords.
