| clinic | | |
| n. (group) | 1. clinic | a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists. |
| ~ medical institution | an institution created for the practice of medicine. |
| ~ eye clinic | a clinic where specialist care for a patient's eyes. |
| n. (communication) | 2. clinic | meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity. |
| ~ session | a meeting for execution of a group's functions.; "it was the opening session of the legislature" |
| ~ reading clinic | a clinic for people with reading disabilities. |
| ~ basketball clinic | a meeting at which basketball players receive special evaluation and instruction. |
| ~ baseball clinic | a meeting at which baseball players receive special evaluation and instruction.; "a summer baseball clinic for promising young players" |
| ~ hockey clinic | a meeting at which hockey players receive special evaluation and instruction. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. clinic | a healthcare facility for outpatient care. |
| ~ dispensary | clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed. |
| ~ hospital, infirmary | a health facility where patients receive treatment. |
| ~ health facility, healthcare facility, medical building | building where medicine is practiced. |
| hospital | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. hospital, infirmary | a health facility where patients receive treatment. |
| ~ burn center | a center where patients with severe burns can be treated. |
| ~ clinic | a healthcare facility for outpatient care. |
| ~ creche, foundling hospital | a hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for. |
| ~ hospital room | a room in a hospital for the care of patients. |
| ~ lazar house, lazaret, lazarette, lazaretto, pesthouse | hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy). |
| ~ maternity hospital | a hospital that provides care for women during pregnancy and childbirth and for newborn infants. |
| ~ health facility, healthcare facility, medical building | building where medicine is practiced. |
| ~ insane asylum, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital, asylum, institution | a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person. |
| ~ military hospital | hospital for soldiers and other military personnel. |
| ~ sanatarium, sanatorium, sanitarium | a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases. |
| ~ hospital ward, ward | block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care.; "they put her in a 4-bed ward" |
| n. (group) | 2. hospital | a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care. |
| ~ medical institution | an institution created for the practice of medicine. |
| ~ coronary care unit | a hospital unit specially staffed and equipped to treat patients with serious cardiac problems. |
| ~ icu, intensive care unit | a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care. |
| cure | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. curative, cure, remedy, therapeutic | a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain. |
| ~ treatment, intervention | care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury). |
| ~ acoustic | a remedy for hearing loss or deafness. |
| ~ antidote, counterpoison | a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison. |
| ~ emetic, nauseant, vomitive, vomit | a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting. |
| ~ lenitive | remedy that eases pain and discomfort. |
| ~ lotion, application | liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin.; "a lotion for dry skin" |
| ~ magic bullet | a remedy (drug or therapy or preventive) that cures or prevents a disease.; "there is no magic bullet against cancer" |
| ~ medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine | (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease. |
| ~ ointment, salve, unguent, balm, unction | semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation. |
| ~ alleviant, palliative, alleviator | remedy that alleviates pain without curing. |
| ~ catholicon, cure-all, nostrum, panacea | hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists. |
| ~ preventative, preventive, prophylactic | remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease.; "the doctor recommended several preventatives" |
| v. (body) | 2. bring around, cure, heal | provide a cure for, make healthy again.; "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to" |
| ~ practice of medicine, medicine | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries.; "he studied medicine at Harvard" |
| ~ care for, treat | provide treatment for.; "The doctor treated my broken leg"; "The nurses cared for the bomb victims"; "The patient must be treated right away or she will die"; "Treat the infection with antibiotics" |
| ~ aid, help | improve the condition of.; "These pills will help the patient" |
| ~ recuperate | restore to good health or strength. |
| v. (change) | 3. cure | prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve.; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay" |
| ~ preserve, keep | prevent (food) from rotting.; "preserved meats"; "keep potatoes fresh" |
| ~ cure | be or become preserved.; "the apricots cure in the sun" |
| ~ dun | cure by salting.; "dun codfish" |
| v. (change) | 4. cure | make (substances) hard and improve their usability.; "cure resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap" |
| ~ harden, indurate | become hard or harder.; "The wax hardened" |
| v. (change) | 5. cure | be or become preserved.; "the apricots cure in the sun" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ cure | prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve.; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay" |
| remedy | | |
| n. (act) | 1. redress, remediation, remedy | act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil. |
| ~ correction, rectification | the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right. |
| ~ salve | anything that remedies or heals or soothes.; "he needed a salve for his conscience" |
| v. (change) | 2. amend, rectify, remediate, remedy, repair | set straight or right.; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight" |
| ~ correct, right, rectify | make right or correct.; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation" |
| v. (body) | 3. relieve, remedy | provide relief for.; "remedy his illness" |
| ~ practice of medicine, medicine | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries.; "he studied medicine at Harvard" |
| ~ care for, treat | provide treatment for.; "The doctor treated my broken leg"; "The nurses cared for the bomb victims"; "The patient must be treated right away or she will die"; "Treat the infection with antibiotics" |
| treat | | |
| n. (food) | 1. dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat | something considered choice to eat. |
| ~ aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, sustenance, nutrition, victuals | a source of materials to nourish the body. |
| ~ choice morsel, tidbit, titbit | a small tasty bit of food. |
| ~ savoury, savory | an aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre. |
| ~ confection, sweet | a food rich in sugar. |
| ~ nectar, ambrosia | (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal. |
| ~ jelly, gelatin | an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods. |
| ~ bone marrow, marrow | very tender and very nutritious tissue from marrowbones. |
| n. (event) | 2. treat | an occurrence that causes special pleasure or delight. |
| ~ happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent | an event that happens. |
| v. (social) | 3. do by, handle, treat | interact in a certain way.; "Do right by her"; "Treat him with caution, please"; "Handle the press reporters gently" |
| ~ treat | regard or consider in a specific way.; "I treated his advances as a joke" |
| ~ bemock, mock | treat with contempt.; "The new constitution mocks all democratic principles" |
| ~ deal, plow, handle, treat, cover, address | act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression.; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China" |
| ~ disregard, ignore, snub, cut | refuse to acknowledge.; "She cut him dead at the meeting" |
| ~ interact | act together or towards others or with others.; "He should interact more with his colleagues" |
| ~ wrong | treat unjustly; do wrong to. |
| ~ handle with kid gloves | handle with great care and sensitivity.; "You have to handle the students with kid gloves" |
| ~ criminalize | treat as a criminal. |
| ~ nurse | treat carefully.; "He nursed his injured back by lying in bed several hours every afternoon"; "He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly" |
| ~ strong-arm | handle roughly.; "He was strong-armed by the policemen" |
| ~ ride roughshod, run roughshod | treat inconsiderately or harshly. |
| ~ upstage | treat snobbishly, put in one's place. |
| ~ rough-house | treat in a rough or boisterous manner. |
| ~ brutalise, brutalize | treat brutally. |
| ~ do well by | treat with respect and consideration.; "children should do well by their parents" |
| ~ gloss over, skate over, skimp over, slur over, smooth over | treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly. |
| ~ abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, mistreat, step | treat badly.; "This boss abuses his workers"; "She is always stepping on others to get ahead" |
| ~ baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, mollycoddle, pamper, indulge, spoil | treat with excessive indulgence.; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" |
| v. (change) | 4. process, treat | subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition.; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals"; "treat an oil spill" |
| ~ propagate | cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering. |
| ~ affect, bear upon, bear on, impact, touch on, touch | have an effect upon.; "Will the new rules affect me?" |
| ~ iodise, iodize | treat with iodine.; "iodize salt" |
| ~ nitrate | treat with nitric acid, so as to change an organic compound into a nitrate.; "nitroglycerin is obtained by nitrating glycerol" |
| ~ tank | treat in a tank.; "tank animal refuse" |
| ~ oxygenate, aerate, oxygenise, oxygenize | impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen.; "oxygenate blood" |
| ~ mercerise, mercerize | treat to strengthen and improve the luster.; "mercerize cotton" |
| ~ malt | treat with malt or malt extract.; "malt beer" |
| ~ fluoridate, fluoridise, fluoridize | subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride.; "fluoridized water"; "fluoridize the teeth of children" |
| ~ creosote | treat with creosote.; "creosoted wood" |
| ~ chlorinate | treat or combine with chlorine.; "chlorinated water" |
| ~ carbonate | treat with carbon dioxide.; "Carbonated soft drinks" |
| ~ camphorate | treat with camphor. |
| ~ bromate, brominate | treat with bromine. |
| ~ ammoniate | treat with ammonia. |
| ~ irradiate, ray | expose to radiation.; "irradiate food" |
| ~ scald | treat with boiling water.; "scald tomatoes so that they can be peeled" |
| ~ refine | treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition.; "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil" |
| ~ nitrogenise, nitrogenize, nitrify | treat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound. |
| ~ reverberate | treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace.; "reverberate ore" |
| ~ curry | treat by incorporating fat.; "curry tanned leather" |
| ~ seed | sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain.; "seed clouds" |
| ~ dose | treat with an agent; add (an agent) to.; "The ray dosed the paint" |
| ~ sulfur, sulphur | treat with sulphur in order to preserve.; "These dried fruits are sulphured" |
| ~ vulcanise, vulcanize | subject to vulcanization.; "vulcanized rubber" |
| ~ chrome | treat with a chromium compound. |
| ~ bituminise, bituminize | treat with bitumen. |
| ~ agenise, agenize | age or bleach flour with Agene (nitrogen trichloride). |
| ~ run | cause to perform.; "run a subject"; "run a process" |
| ~ carboxylate | treat (a chemical compound) with carboxyl or carboxylic acid. |
| ~ beneficiate | process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction. |
| ~ digest | convert food into absorbable substances.; "I cannot digest milk products" |
| ~ fumigate, fume | treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests. |
| ~ air-condition | control the humidity and temperature of.; "The room was cool because it had been air-conditioned" |
| v. (body) | 5. care for, treat | provide treatment for.; "The doctor treated my broken leg"; "The nurses cared for the bomb victims"; "The patient must be treated right away or she will die"; "Treat the infection with antibiotics" |
| ~ hyperventilate | produce hyperventilation in.; "The nurses had to hyperventilate the patient" |
| ~ massage | give a massage to.; "She massaged his sore back" |
| ~ purge | excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body).; "The doctor decided that the patient must be purged" |
| ~ correct | treat a defect.; "The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia" |
| ~ insufflate | treat by blowing a powder or vapor into a bodily cavity. |
| ~ detox, detoxify | treat for alcohol or drug dependence.; "He was detoxified in the clinic" |
| ~ irrigate | supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting.; "irrigate the wound" |
| ~ iodise, iodize | treat with iodine so as to prevent infection.; "iodize a wound" |
| ~ doctor | give medical treatment to. |
| ~ vet | provide (a person) with medical care. |
| ~ nurse | try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury.; "He nursed his cold with Chinese herbs" |
| ~ manipulate | treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed. |
| ~ dispense, administer | give or apply (medications). |
| ~ remedy, relieve | provide relief for.; "remedy his illness" |
| ~ dress | apply a bandage or medication to.; "dress the victim's wounds" |
| ~ splint | support with a splint.; "splint a broken finger" |
| ~ operate on, operate | perform surgery on.; "The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life" |
| ~ medicine, medicate | treat medicinally, treat with medicine. |
| ~ leech, phlebotomise, phlebotomize, bleed | draw blood.; "In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment" |
| ~ cup, transfuse | treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin. |
| ~ shock | subject to electrical shocks. |
| ~ pack | treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood.; "The nurse packed gauze in the wound"; "You had better pack your swollen ankle with ice" |
| ~ cauterise, cauterize, burn | burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent.; "The surgeon cauterized the wart" |
| ~ psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze, analyse, analyze | subject to psychoanalytic treatment.; "I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist" |
| v. (communication) | 6. address, cover, deal, handle, plow, treat | act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression.; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China" |
| ~ broach, initiate | bring up a topic for discussion. |
| ~ theologise, theologize | treat from a theological viewpoint or render theological in character. |
| ~ discourse, discuss, talk about | to consider or examine in speech or writing.; "The author talks about the different aspects of this question"; "The class discussed Dante's `Inferno'" |
| ~ do by, treat, handle | interact in a certain way.; "Do right by her"; "Treat him with caution, please"; "Handle the press reporters gently" |
| ~ embrace, encompass, comprehend, cover | include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory.; "This group encompasses a wide range of people from different backgrounds"; "this should cover everyone in the group" |
| v. (possession) | 7. treat | provide with a gift or entertainment.; "Grandmother always treated us to the circus"; "I like to treat myself to a day at a spa when I am depressed" |
| ~ regale, treat | provide with choice or abundant food or drink.; "Don't worry about the expensive wine--I'm treating"; "She treated her houseguests with good food every night" |
| ~ gift, present, give | give as a present; make a gift of.; "What will you give her for her birthday?" |
| v. (consumption) | 8. regale, treat | provide with choice or abundant food or drink.; "Don't worry about the expensive wine--I'm treating"; "She treated her houseguests with good food every night" |
| ~ wine | treat to wine.; "Our relatives in Italy wined and dined us for a week" |
| ~ alcoholize | subject to the influence of alcohol.; "After we finished dinner, we were thoroughly alcoholized" |
| ~ feast, feed | gratify.; "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view" |
| ~ cater, ply, provide, supply | give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance.; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests" |
| ~ treat | provide with a gift or entertainment.; "Grandmother always treated us to the circus"; "I like to treat myself to a day at a spa when I am depressed" |
| v. (communication) | 9. treat | engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement.; "they had to treat with the King" |
| ~ negociate | confer with another in order to come to terms or reach an agreement.; "The parties negociated all night" |
| v. (cognition) | 10. treat | regard or consider in a specific way.; "I treated his advances as a joke" |
| ~ react, respond | show a response or a reaction to something. |
| ~ do by, treat, handle | interact in a certain way.; "Do right by her"; "Treat him with caution, please"; "Handle the press reporters gently" |
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