self-treatment
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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When conventional medicine fails to offer clear answers, especially for vague or chronic symptoms, people may turn to food as a form of self-treatment.
From Slate • May 25, 2025
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
In 19 instances they watched a chimp performing what looked like self-treatment of the wound using an insect as a salve.
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2022
I do not wish to make you think constantly of yourself as diseased, and so I do not give you directions as to local self-treatment.
From What a Young Woman Ought to Know by Wood-Allen, Mary
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