| beauty treatment | enhancement of someone's personal beauty |
maltreatment
ill-treatment
ill-usage
abuse | cruel or inhumane treatment, the child showed signs of physical abuse |
cruelty
inhuman treatment | a cruel act, a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering |
treatment
intervention | care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) |
| therapy | (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.), the quarterback is undergoing treatment for a knee injury, he tried every treatment the doctors suggested, heat therapy gave the best relief |
hormone replacement therapy
hormoneeplacement therapy
HRT | hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women, believed to protect them from heart disease and osteoporosis |
| infrared therapy | the use of infrared radiation (as by infrared lamps or heating pads or hot water bottles) to relieve pain and increase circulation to a particular area of the body |
| inflation therapy | therapy in which water or oxygen or a drug is introduced into the respiratory tract with inhaled air |
| megavitamin therapy | therapy based on a theory that taking very large doses of vitamins will prevent or cure physical or psychological disorders |
| occupational therapy | therapy based on engagement in meaningful activities of daily life, especially to enable or encourage participation in such activities in spite of impairments or limitations in physical or mental functions |
physical therapy
physiotherapy
physiatrics | therapy that uses physical agents: exercise and massage and other modalities |
phytotherapy
herbal therapy
botanical medicine | the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet) |
behavior therapy
behavior modification | psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior |
| aversion therapy | any technique of behavior modification that uses unpleasant stimuli in a controlled fashion to alter behavior in a therapeutic way, primarily used for alcoholism or drug abuse (but with little success) |
| exposure therapy | a form of behavior therapy in which a survivor confronts feelings or phobias or anxieties about a traumatic event and relives it in the therapy situation |
implosion therapy
flooding | a technique used in behavior therapy, client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them |
reciprocal inhibition
reciprocal-inhibition therapy | a method of behavior therapy based on the inhibition of one response by the occurrence of another response that is mutually incompatible with it, a relaxation response might be conditioned to a stimulus that previously evoked anxiety |
| cliententered therapy | a method of psychotherapy developed by Carl Rogers in which the client determines the focus and pace of each session |
group therapy
group psychotherapy | psychotherapy in which a small group of individuals meet with a therapist, interactions among the members are considered to be therapeutic |
| family therapy | any of several therapeutic approaches in which a family is treated as a whole |
| play therapy | form of psychotherapy for children that uses play situations for diagnosis or treatment |
radiotherapy
radiation therapy
radiation actinotherapy
irradiation | (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance |
radium therapy
Curietherapy | the use of radium in radiation therapy |
| Xay therapy | the therapeutic use of X rays |
shock therapy
shock treatment | treatment of certain psychotic states by the administration of shocks that are followed by convulsions |
electroconvulsive therapy
electroshock
electroshock therapy
ECT | the administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma |
insulin shock
insulin shock therapy
insulin shock treatment | the administration of sufficient insulin to induce convulsions and coma |
metrazol shock
metrazol shock therapy
metrazol shock treatment | the administration of sufficient Metrazol to induce convulsions and coma |
| speech therapy | any therapy intended to correct a disorder of speech |
| thrombolytic therapy | therapy consisting of the administration of a pharmacological agent to cause thrombolysis of an abnormal blood clot |
| orthodontic treatment | dental treatment that corrects irregularities of the teeth or of the relation of the teeth to surrounding anatomy, treatment is usually by braces or mechanical aids, orthodontic treatment of facial abnormalities |
autogenic therapy
autogenic training
autogenics | training patients in self-induced relaxation |
| treatment handling | the management of someone or something, the handling of prisoners, the treatment of water sewage, the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system |
| silent treatment | an aloof refusal to speak to someone you know |
analgesic
anodyne
painkiller
pain pill | a medicine used to relieve pain |
drug cocktail
highly active antiretroviral therapy
HAART | a combination of protease inhibitors taken with reverse transcriptase inhibitors, used in treating AIDS and HIV |
| treatment | a manner of dealing with something artistically, his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture |
| pain threshold | the lowest intensity of stimulation at which pain is experienced, some people have much higher pain thresholds than do other people |
pain
pain sensation
painful sensation | a somatic sensation of acute discomfort, as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain |
| phantom limb pain | pain felt by an amputee that seems to be located in the missing limb |
annoyance
bother
botheration
pain infliction
pain in the neck
pain in the ass | something or someone that causes trouble, a source of unhappiness, washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer, a bit of a bother, he's not a friend, he's an infliction |
pleasure principle
pleasure-pain principle
pleasure-unpleasure principle | (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id, the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality |
discussion treatment
discourse | an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic, the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic, his treatment of the race question is badly biased |
short shrift
summary treatment | a brief and unsympathetic rejection, they made short shrift of my request |
pain
painfulness | emotional distress, a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid, the pain of loneliness |
pain
pain in the neck
nuisance | a bothersome annoying person, that kid is a terrible pain |
| pain unit | a unit measuring the intensity of pain |
pain
hurting | a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder, the patient developed severe pain and distension |
| chest pain | pain in the chest |
lumbago
lumbar pain | backache affecting the lumbar region or lower back, can be caused by muscle strain or arthritis or vascular insufficiency or a ruptured intervertebral disc |