🤩 Vital Vocabulary for Health Care Discussions in English Exam!⤵️

▫️ Medical cover / medical insurance

📎 Meaning: Insurance for the cost of medical treatment.

▫️ Example: I was reluctant to pay for medical cover but was so glad I had when I fell ill with malaria after a holiday in the tropics.

▫️ Immunization

📎 Meaning: The process of making a person resistant to an infectious disease, typically by the administration of a vaccine.

▫️ Example: Mass immunization programs are highly effective in eradicating many common infectious diseases.

▫️ Vaccine

📎 Meaning: A preparation of organisms administered to stimulate the body's own immune system to protect the person against infection or disease.

▫️ Example: Modern flu vaccines are so effective that thousands of lives are saved every year in the UK, and free vaccination is offered to everyone over the age of 65.

▫️ Surgery

📎 Meaning: The process of cutting open the body and removing or repairing damaged parts.

▫️ Example: Sanchez had to undergo emergency surgery after suffering a heart attack.

▫️ Operation

📎 Meaning: The act of surgery performed on a patient.

▫️ Example: My ankle fracture was so bad that I had to have an operation to repair it.

▫️ Cure

📎 Meaning: To eradicate a disease or medical condition.

▫️ Example: Millions of children in the developing world die of common illnesses for which there are simple cures.

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