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This unit covers understanding and responding to instructions, carrying out routine tasks and communicating with a range of internal/external clients in a Medical Office, using appropriate basic medical terminology. Understanding medical words and there meanings often can help you understand locations of vital organs and the functions of the body. If you don’t know the medical terminology, you will be lost in a medical career and could potentially hurt someone because some words are so similar. It is also very easy to make a distinction between illnesses and treatments if you understand word spellings, meanings but also pronunciation plays a large role in this. (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_importance_of_medical_terminology_in_the_medical_field )