ICD-10-CM › K00-K95 › K00-K14 › K14 Diseases of tongue › K14.0
Glossitis
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Glossitis
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from K14 Diseases of tongue
Excludes2 - not included here
- erythroplakia (K13.29)
- focal epithelial hyperplasia (K13.29)
- leukoedema of tongue (K13.29)
- leukoplakia of tongue (K13.21)
- hairy leukoplakia (K13.3)
- macroglossia (congenital) (Q38.2)
- submucous fibrosis of tongue (K13.5)
Use additional code
- code to identify:
- alcohol abuse and dependence (F10.-)
- exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
- occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)
- tobacco dependence (F17.-)
- tobacco use (Z72.0)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Node
- Swollen
- Naga sore
- Phagedena
- Sloughing
- Sphacelus
- Veldt sore
- Carbunculus
- Sore > Naga
- Tumefaction
- Sore > veldt
- Subglossitis
- Desert > sore
- Mortification
- Sore > desert
- Pericellulitis
- Sore > of skin
- Sore > tropical
- Meleney's > ulcer
- Sloughing > ulcer
- Necrosis, necrotic
- Meleney's > gangrene
- Phagedena > tropical
- Barcoo disease or rot
- Pemphigus > gangrenous
- Cellulitis > gangrenous
- Dropsy, dropsical > gangrenous
- Gangrene, gangrenous > Meleney's
- Lesion > ulcerated or ulcerative
- Infection, infected, infective > skin > ulcer
- Gangrene, gangrenous > progressive synergistic
- Infection, infected, infective > local, skin > ulcer
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > chronic
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > trophic
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > atrophic
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > tropical
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > fistulous
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > Meleney's
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > sloughing
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > gangrenous
Showing 40 of 67 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| K14.1 | Geographic tongue | Valid |
| K14.2 | Median rhomboid glossitis | Valid |
| K14.3 | Hypertrophy of tongue papillae | Valid |
| K14.4 | Atrophy of tongue papillae | Valid |
| K14.5 | Plicated tongue | Valid |
| K14.6 | Glossodynia | Valid |
| K14.8 | Other diseases of tongue | Valid |
| K14.9 | Disease of tongue, unspecified | Valid |