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self-treatment

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noun

  1. the act or an instance of applying (medical) treatment to oneself

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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But kinder self-treatment is a small way you can start to trust your worth again.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2022

Ziltener agrees that more proof of deliberate self-treatment is required, but she says that the new findings are an intriguing step.

From Scientific American • May 19, 2022

According to the agency, RM has exhibited no particular symptoms while Jin is showing mild symptoms including light fever and is undergoing self-treatment at home.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2021

He is in his second year now at college in the Bay Area, taking a light load of three classes and conducting his own course, of sorts, in self-treatment.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2015

Such a system was naturally dependent upon accidents of person or place; it would not be widely extended nor continued nor made the basis of self-treatment.

From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Atkins, Gaius Glenn

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