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Treatment vs Treatable - What's the difference?

treatment | treatable |

As a noun treatment

is the process or manner of treating someone or something.

As an adjective treatable is

able to be treated; not incurable or intractable.

treatment

English

Noun

  • 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.
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  • 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.

    Derived terms

    * silent treatment

    treatable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be treated; not incurable or intractable.
  • :In the eighties, AIDS was not a treatable disease, and as a consequence the mortality rate at that time was very high.