🤩 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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