noun
- preliminary treatments given before the main treatment or process
Usage: medical; technical
Examples
- The fabric requires several pretreatments before dyeing.
- Medical pretreatments helped reduce the patient’s anxiety before surgery.
- Water pretreatments remove impurities before the main filtration process.
- The chemotherapy pretreatments prepared her body for the intensive treatment.
- Industrial pretreatments are essential for proper metal coating.
- Soil pretreatments improve crop yield significantly.