List of ICD-9 codes 780-799: Symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions
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General symptoms

  • General symptoms
    • Alteration of consciousness
      • Coma
        Coma
        In medicine, a coma is a state of unconsciousness, lasting more than 6 hours in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light or sound, lacks a normal sleep-wake cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions. A person in a state of coma is described as...

      • Transient alteration of awareness
      • Persistent vegetative state
        Persistent vegetative state
        A persistent vegetative state is a disorder of consciousness in which patients with severe brain damage are in a state of partial arousal rather than true awareness. It is a diagnosis of some uncertainty in that it deals with a syndrome. After four weeks in a vegetative state , the patient is...

      • Semicoma
        Coma
        In medicine, a coma is a state of unconsciousness, lasting more than 6 hours in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light or sound, lacks a normal sleep-wake cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions. A person in a state of coma is described as...

        , stupor
        Stupor
        Stupor is the lack of critical cognitive function and level of consciousness wherein a sufferer is almost entirely unresponsive and only responds to base stimuli such as pain. This is often mistaken for delirium and treated with Haldol and or other anti-psychotic drugs...

    • Hallucinations
    • Syncope
    • Convulsions
      • Febrile convulsions
      • Complex febrile convulsions
      • Other convulsions
    • Dizziness
      Dizziness
      Dizziness refers to an impairment in spatial perception and stability. The term is somewhat imprecise. It can be used to mean vertigo, presyncope, disequilibrium, or a non-specific feeling such as giddiness or foolishness....

      /vertigo
      Vertigo (medical)
      Vertigo is a type of dizziness, where there is a feeling of motion when one is stationary. The symptoms are due to a dysfunction of the vestibular system in the inner ear...

      , NOS
      NOS
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    • Sleep disturbance, unspec.
      • Unspecified sleep disturbance
      • Insomnia with sleep apnea, unspecified
      • Insomnia
        Insomnia
        Insomnia is most often defined by an individual's report of sleeping difficulties. While the term is sometimes used in sleep literature to describe a disorder demonstrated by polysomnographic evidence of disturbed sleep, insomnia is often defined as a positive response to either of two questions:...

        , unspecified
      • Hypersomnia with sleep apnea, unspecified
      • Hypersomnia
        Hypersomnia
        Hypersomnia is a disorder characterized by excessive amounts of sleepiness.There are two main categories of hypersomnia: primary hypersomnia and recurrent hypersomnia...

        , unspecified
      • Disruptions of 24-hour sleep-wake cycle, unspecified
      • Dysfunctions associated with sleep stages or arousal from sleep
      • Unspecified sleep apnea
        Sleep apnea
        Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder characterized by abnormal pauses in breathing or instances of abnormally low breathing, during sleep. Each pause in breathing, called an apnea, can last from a few seconds to minutes, and may occur 5 to 30 times or more an hour. Similarly, each abnormally low...

      • Sleep related movement disorder, unspecified
      • Other sleep disturbances
    • Fever
      Fever
      Fever is a common medical sign characterized by an elevation of temperature above the normal range of due to an increase in the body temperature regulatory set-point. This increase in set-point triggers increased muscle tone and shivering.As a person's temperature increases, there is, in...

      , nonperinatal
    • Malaise
      Malaise
      Malaise is a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness, of being "out of sorts", often the first indication of an infection or other disease. Malaise is often defined in medicinal research as a "general feeling of being unwell"...

       and fatigue
      Fatigue (physical)
      Fatigue is a state of awareness describing a range of afflictions, usually associated with physical and/or mental weakness, though varying from a general state of lethargy to a specific work-induced burning sensation within one's muscles...

      • Chronic fatigue syndrome
        Chronic fatigue syndrome
        Chronic fatigue syndrome is the most common name used to designate a significantly debilitating medical disorder or group of disorders generally defined by persistent fatigue accompanied by other specific symptoms for a minimum of six months, not due to ongoing exertion, not substantially...

      • Functional quadriplegia
      • Other malaise and fatigue
    • Sweating
      Sweating
      Perspiration is the production of a fluid consisting primarily of water as well as various dissolved solids , that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals...

      , excessive
    • Other general symptoms
      • Fussy infant
      • Crying
        Crying
        Crying is shedding tears as a response to an emotional state in humans. The act of crying has been defined as "a complex secretomotor phenomenon characterized by the shedding of tears from the lacrimal apparatus, without any irritation of the ocular structures"...

        , infant, excessive
      • Memory loss
        Memory loss
        Memory loss can be partial or total and it is normal when it comes with aging. Sudden memory loss is usually a result of brain trauma and it may be permanent or temporary. When it is caused by medical conditions such as Alzheimers, the memory loss is gradual and tends to be permanent.Brain trauma...

      • Early satiety
      • Other excessive crying
      • Generalized pain
      • Altered mental status
      • Other general symptoms

Symptoms involving nervous and musculoskeletal systems

  • Symptoms involving nervous
    Nervous system
    The nervous system is an organ system containing a network of specialized cells called neurons that coordinate the actions of an animal and transmit signals between different parts of its body. In most animals the nervous system consists of two parts, central and peripheral. The central nervous...

     and musculoskeletal systems
    • Abnormal involuntary movements
      Movement disorder
      Movement disorders include:* Akathisia * Akinesia * Associated Movements * Athetosis...

    • Disturbances, smell
      Olfaction
      Olfaction is the sense of smell. This sense is mediated by specialized sensory cells of the nasal cavity of vertebrates, and, by analogy, sensory cells of the antennae of invertebrates...

       and taste
      Taste
      Taste is one of the traditional five senses. It refers to the ability to detect the flavor of substances such as food, certain minerals, and poisons, etc....

    • Gait abnormality
      Gait abnormality
      Gait abnormality is a deviation from normal walking . Watching a patient walk is the most important part of the neurological examination. Normal gait requires that many systems, including strength, sensation and coordination, function in an integrated fashion...

    • Lack of coordination
      • Dysdiadochokinesia
        Dysdiadochokinesia
        Dysdiadochokinesia, dysdiadochokinesis, dysdiadokokinesia, dysdiadokokinesis, or DDK is the medical term for an inability to perform rapid, alternating movements.-Causes:It is a feature of cerebellar ataxia, and is the result of lesions to the cerebellar hemispheres, the posterior or...

      • Ataxia
        Ataxia
        Ataxia is a neurological sign and symptom that consists of gross lack of coordination of muscle movements. Ataxia is a non-specific clinical manifestation implying dysfunction of the parts of the nervous system that coordinate movement, such as the cerebellum...

         NOS
      • Hypotonia
        Hypotonia
        Hypotonia is a state of low muscle tone , often involving reduced muscle strength. Hypotonia is not a specific medical disorder, but a potential manifestation of many different diseases and disorders that affect motor nerve control by the brain or muscle strength...

    • Clubbing of fingers
    • Neurologic neglect syndrome
    • Other symptoms involving nervous
      Nervous system
      The nervous system is an organ system containing a network of specialized cells called neurons that coordinate the actions of an animal and transmit signals between different parts of its body. In most animals the nervous system consists of two parts, central and peripheral. The central nervous...

       and musculoskeletal systems
      • Loss of height
        Height
        Height is the measurement of vertical distance, but has two meanings in common use. It can either indicate how "tall" something is, or how "high up" it is. For example "The height of the building is 50 m" or "The height of the airplane is 10,000 m"...

      • Abnormal posture
      • Facial weakness
        Facial weakness
        Facial weakness is a medical sign associated with a variety of medical conditions.Some specific conditions associated with facial weakness include:* stroke* neurofibromatosis* Bell's palsy* Ramsay Hunt syndrome* Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leak...


Symptoms involving skin and other integumentary tissue

  • Symptoms involving skin
    Human skin
    The human skin is the outer covering of the body. In humans, it is the largest organ of the integumentary system. The skin has multiple layers of ectodermal tissue and guards the underlying muscles, bones, ligaments and internal organs. Human skin is similar to that of most other mammals,...

     and other integumentary
    Integumentary system
    The integumentary system is the organ system that protects the body from damage, comprising the skin and its appendages...

     tissue
    Biological tissue
    Tissue is a cellular organizational level intermediate between cells and a complete organism. A tissue is an ensemble of cells, not necessarily identical, but from the same origin, that together carry out a specific function. These are called tissues because of their identical functioning...

    • Sensory disturbance skin
    • Rash
      Rash
      A rash is a change of the skin which affects its color, appearance or texture. A rash may be localized in one part of the body, or affect all the skin. Rashes may cause the skin to change color, itch, become warm, bumpy, chapped, dry, cracked or blistered, swell and may be painful. The causes, and...

      , nonvesicular, unspec.
    • Localized swelling/mass, superficial
    • Edema
      Edema
      Edema or oedema ; both words from the Greek , oídēma "swelling"), formerly known as dropsy or hydropsy, is an abnormal accumulation of fluid beneath the skin or in one or more cavities of the body that produces swelling...

      , localized, NOS
      NOS
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    • Jaundice
      Jaundice
      Jaundice is a yellowish pigmentation of the skin, the conjunctival membranes over the sclerae , and other mucous membranes caused by hyperbilirubinemia . This hyperbilirubinemia subsequently causes increased levels of bilirubin in the extracellular fluid...

    • Cyanosis
      Cyanosis
      Cyanosis is the appearance of a blue or purple coloration of the skin or mucous membranes due to the tissues near the skin surface being low on oxygen. The onset of cyanosis is 2.5 g/dL of deoxyhemoglobin. The bluish color is more readily apparent in those with high hemoglobin counts than it is...

    • Petechiae
    • Change in skin texture
    • Other symptoms involving skin
      Human skin
      The human skin is the outer covering of the body. In humans, it is the largest organ of the integumentary system. The skin has multiple layers of ectodermal tissue and guards the underlying muscles, bones, ligaments and internal organs. Human skin is similar to that of most other mammals,...


Symptoms involving head and neck

  • Symptoms involving head
    Human head
    In human anatomy, the head is the upper portion of the human body. It supports the face and is maintained by the skull, which itself encloses the brain.-Cultural importance:...

     and neck
    Neck
    The neck is the part of the body, on many terrestrial or secondarily aquatic vertebrates, that distinguishes the head from the torso or trunk. The adjective signifying "of the neck" is cervical .-Boner anatomy: The cervical spine:The cervical portion of the human spine comprises seven boney...

    • Headache
      Headache
      A headache or cephalalgia is pain anywhere in the region of the head or neck. It can be a symptom of a number of different conditions of the head and neck. The brain tissue itself is not sensitive to pain because it lacks pain receptors. Rather, the pain is caused by disturbance of the...

    • Throat pain
    • Swelling mass or lump in head and neck
    • Aphasia
      Aphasia
      Aphasia is an impairment of language ability. This class of language disorder ranges from having difficulty remembering words to being completely unable to speak, read, or write....

    • Voice
      Human voice
      The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal folds for talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc. Its frequency ranges from about 60 to 7000 Hz. The human voice is specifically that part of human sound production in which the vocal folds are the primary...

       disturbance
      • Aphonia
        Aphonia
        Aphonia is the inability to speak. It is considered more severe than dysphonia. A primary cause of aphonia is bilateral disruption of the recurrent laryngeal nerve, which supplies nearly all the muscles in the larynx...

      • Hoarseness
    • Dysarthria
      Dysarthria
      Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder resulting from neurological injury of the motor component of the motor-speech system and is characterized by poor articulation of phonemes...

    • Other symbolic dysfunction
      • Symbolic dysfunction, unspecified
      • Alexia and dyslexia
        Dyslexia
        Dyslexia is a very broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person's fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read, and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, or rapid...

    • Epistaxis
    • Hemorrhage from throat
    • Other symptoms involving head and neck
      • Postnasal drip

Symptoms involving cardiovascular system

  • Symptoms involving cardiovascular system
    • Tachycardia
      Tachycardia
      Tachycardia comes from the Greek words tachys and kardia . Tachycardia typically refers to a heart rate that exceeds the normal range for a resting heart rate...

    • Palpitations
    • Murmur of heart, undiagnosed
    • Other abnormal heart sounds
    • Gangrene
      Gangrene
      Gangrene is a serious and potentially life-threatening condition that arises when a considerable mass of body tissue dies . This may occur after an injury or infection, or in people suffering from any chronic health problem affecting blood circulation. The primary cause of gangrene is reduced blood...

    • Shock, unspec.
      • Shock unspecified
      • Cardiogenic shock
        Cardiogenic shock
        Cardiogenic shock is based upon an inadequate circulation of blood due to primary failure of the ventricles of the heart to function effectively....

      • Septic shock
        Septic shock
        Septic shock is a medical emergency caused by decreased tissue perfusion and oxygen delivery as a result of severe infection and sepsis, though the microbe may be systemic or localized to a particular site. It can cause multiple organ dysfunction syndrome and death...

    • Enlarged lymph nodes
    • Bruit
      Bruit
      Bruit is the term for the unusual sound that blood makes when it rushes past an obstruction in an artery when the sound is auscultated with the bell portion of a stethoscope.The term "bruit" simply refers to the sound...


Symptoms involving respiratory system and other chest symptoms

  • Symptoms involving respiratory system
    Respiratory system
    The respiratory system is the anatomical system of an organism that introduces respiratory gases to the interior and performs gas exchange. In humans and other mammals, the anatomical features of the respiratory system include airways, lungs, and the respiratory muscles...

     and other chest symptoms
    • Dyspnea
      Dyspnea
      Dyspnea , shortness of breath , or air hunger, is the subjective symptom of breathlessness.It is a normal symptom of heavy exertion but becomes pathological if it occurs in unexpected situations...

       and respiratory abnormalities
      • Apnea
        Apnea
        Apnea, apnoea, or apnœa is a term for suspension of external breathing. During apnea there is no movement of the muscles of respiration and the volume of the lungs initially remains unchanged...

      • Cheyne-Stokes respiration
        Cheyne-Stokes respiration
        Cheyne-Stokes respiration is an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by progressively deeper and sometimes faster breathing, followed by a gradual decrease that results in a temporary stop in breathing called an apnea. The pattern repeats, with each cycle usually taking 30 seconds to 2...

      • Shortness of breath
      • Tachypnea
        Tachypnea
        Tachypnea means rapid breathing. Any rate between 12-20 breaths per minute is normal. Tachypnea is a respiration rate greater than 20 breaths per minute. - Distinction from other breathing terms :...

      • Wheezing
      • Other respiratory abnormalities
        • Bradypnea
          Bradypnea
          Bradypnea refers to an abnormally slow breathing rate...

    • Stridor
      Stridor
      Stridor is a high pitched wheezing sound resulting from turbulent air flow in the upper airway. Stridor is a physical sign which is produced by narrow or obstructed airway path. It can be inspiratory, expiratory or biphasic . Inspiratory stridor is common...

    • Cough
      Cough
      A cough is a sudden and often repetitively occurring reflex which helps to clear the large breathing passages from secretions, irritants, foreign particles and microbes...

    • Hemoptysis
      Hemoptysis
      Hemoptysis or haemoptysis is the expectoration of blood or of blood-stained sputum from the bronchi, larynx, trachea, or lungs Hemoptysis or haemoptysis is the expectoration (coughing up) of blood or of blood-stained sputum from the bronchi, larynx, trachea, or lungs Hemoptysis or haemoptysis ...

    • Abnormal sputum
      Sputum
      Sputum is mucus that is coughed up from the lower airways. It is usually used for microbiological investigations of respiratory infections....

    • Chest pain
      Chest pain
      Chest pain may be a symptom of a number of serious conditions and is generally considered a medical emergency. Even though it may be determined that the pain is non-cardiac in origin, this is often a diagnosis of exclusion made after ruling out more serious causes of the pain.-Differential...

      , unspec.
      • Precordial pain
      • Pleuritic pain
    • swelling
      Swelling (medical)
      In medical parlance, swelling is the transient enlargement or protuberance in the body and may include tumors. According to cause, it may be congenital, traumatic, inflammatory, neoplastic or miscellaneous....

      , mass, or lump in chest
    • Abnormal chest sounds
      • Rales
        Rales
        Crackles, crepitations, or rales are the clicking, rattling, or crackling noises that may be made by one or both lungs of a human with a respiratory disease during inhalation. They are often heard only with a stethoscope...

    • Hiccoughs

Symptoms involving digestive system

  • Symptoms involving digestive system
    • Nausea
      Nausea
      Nausea , is a sensation of unease and discomfort in the upper stomach with an involuntary urge to vomit. It often, but not always, precedes vomiting...

       and vomiting
      Vomiting
      Vomiting is the forceful expulsion of the contents of one's stomach through the mouth and sometimes the nose...

      • Nausea
        Nausea
        Nausea , is a sensation of unease and discomfort in the upper stomach with an involuntary urge to vomit. It often, but not always, precedes vomiting...

         w/vomiting
        Vomiting
        Vomiting is the forceful expulsion of the contents of one's stomach through the mouth and sometimes the nose...

      • Nausea
        Nausea
        Nausea , is a sensation of unease and discomfort in the upper stomach with an involuntary urge to vomit. It often, but not always, precedes vomiting...

        , alone
      • Vomiting
        Vomiting
        Vomiting is the forceful expulsion of the contents of one's stomach through the mouth and sometimes the nose...

        , alone
    • Heartburn
      Heartburn
      Heartburn, also known as pyrosis or acid indigestion is a burning sensation in the chest, just behind the breastbone or in the epigastrium...

    • Dysphagia
      Dysphagia
      Dysphagia is the medical term for the symptom of difficulty in swallowing. Although classified under "symptoms and signs" in ICD-10, the term is sometimes used as a condition in its own right. Sufferers are sometimes unaware of their dysphagia....

    • Gas
      Gas
      Gas is one of the three classical states of matter . Near absolute zero, a substance exists as a solid. As heat is added to this substance it melts into a liquid at its melting point , boils into a gas at its boiling point, and if heated high enough would enter a plasma state in which the electrons...

      /bloating
      Bloating
      Bloating is any abnormal general swelling, or increase in diameter of the abdominal area. As a symptom, the patient feels a full and tight abdomen, which may cause abdominal pain sometimes accompanied by increased borborygmus or more seriously the total lack of borborygmus.-Symptoms:The most common...

    • Visible peristalsis
    • Abnormal bowel sounds
    • Encopresis
      Encopresis
      Encopresis is involuntary fecal soiling in adults and children who have usually already been toilet trained. Persons with encopresis often leak stool into their undergarments.-Prevalence:The estimated prevalence of encopresis in four-year-olds is between one and three percent...

      , NOS
      NOS
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      , fecal incontinence
      Fecal incontinence
      Fecal incontinence is the loss of regular control of the bowels. Involuntary excretion and leaking are common occurrences for those affected. Subjects relating to defecation are often socially unacceptable, thus those affected may be beset by feelings of shame and humiliation...

    • Other symptoms involving digestive system
      • Diarrhea
        Diarrhea
        Diarrhea , also spelled diarrhoea, is the condition of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. It is a common cause of death in developing countries and the second most common cause of infant deaths worldwide. The loss of fluids through diarrhea can cause dehydration and...

        , NOS
        NOS
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Symptoms involving urinary system

  • Symptoms involving urinary system
    Urinary system
    The urinary system is the organ system that produces, stores, and eliminates urine. In humans it includes two kidneys, two ureters, the bladder and the urethra.-Kidney:...

    • Renal colic
      Renal colic
      Renal colic is a type of abdominal pain commonly caused by kidney stones.-Presentation:The pain typically begins in the abdomen and often radiates to the hypochondrium or the groin. The pain is often colicky due to ureteric peristalsis, but may be constant...

    • Dysuria
      Dysuria
      In medicine, specifically urology, dysuria refers to painful urination.Difficult urination is also sometimes described as dysuria.It is one of a constellation of irritative bladder symptoms, which includes urinary frequency and haematuria....

    • Retention of urine
    • Urinary incontinence
      Urinary incontinence
      Urinary incontinence is any involuntary leakage of urine. It is a common and distressing problem, which may have a profound impact on quality of life. Urinary incontinence almost always results from an underlying treatable medical condition but is under-reported to medical practitioners...

      • Urinary incontinence
        Urinary incontinence
        Urinary incontinence is any involuntary leakage of urine. It is a common and distressing problem, which may have a profound impact on quality of life. Urinary incontinence almost always results from an underlying treatable medical condition but is under-reported to medical practitioners...

         unspecified
      • Urge incontinence
        Urge incontinence
        Urge incontinence is a form of urinary incontinence.Urge incontinence is involuntary loss of urine occurring for no apparent reason while feeling urinary urgency, a sudden need or urge to urinate.-Causes:...

      • Stress incontinence
        Stress incontinence
        Stress incontinence is a form of urinary incontinence.Stress urinary incontinence , also known as effort incontinence, is due essentially to insufficient strength of the pelvic floor muscles.-Pathophysiology:...

      • Mixed incontinence
      • Incontinence without sensory awareness
      • Post-void dribbling
      • Nocturnal enuresis
      • Continuous leakage
      • Overflow incontinence
        Overflow incontinence
        Overflow incontinence is a form of urinary incontinence.Sometimes people find that they cannot stop their bladders from constantly dribbling, or continuing to dribble for some time after they have passed urine...

      • Other urinary incontinence
        Urinary incontinence
        Urinary incontinence is any involuntary leakage of urine. It is a common and distressing problem, which may have a profound impact on quality of life. Urinary incontinence almost always results from an underlying treatable medical condition but is under-reported to medical practitioners...

    • Frequency of urination and polyuria
      Polyuria
      Polyuria is a condition usually defined as excessive or abnormally large production or passage of urine . Frequent urination is sometimes included by definition, but is nonetheless usually an accompanying symptom...

      • Urinary frequency
      • Polyuria
        Polyuria
        Polyuria is a condition usually defined as excessive or abnormally large production or passage of urine . Frequent urination is sometimes included by definition, but is nonetheless usually an accompanying symptom...

      • Nocturia
        Nocturia
        Nocturia , also called nycturia , is the need to get up in the night to urinate, thus interrupting sleep. Its occurrence is more frequent in pregnant women and in the elderly...

    • Oliguria
      Oliguria
      Oliguria is the low output of urine, It is clinically classified as an output below 300-500ml/day. The decreased output of urine may be a sign of dehydration, renal failure, hypovolemic shock, HHNS Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemic Nonketotic Syndrome, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, urinary...

       and anuria
      Anuria
      Anuria means nonpassage of urine, in practice is defined as passage of less than 50 milliliters of urine in a day. Anuria is often caused by failure in the function of kidneys. It may also occur because of some severe obstruction like kidney stones or tumours. It may occur with end stage renal...

    • Other abnormality of urination
      Urination
      Urination, also known as micturition, voiding, peeing, weeing, pissing, and more rarely, emiction, is the ejection of urine from the urinary bladder through the urethra to the outside of the body. In healthy humans the process of urination is under voluntary control...

      • Urgency of urination

Other symptoms involving abdomen and pelvis

  • Other symptoms involving abdomen
    Abdomen
    In vertebrates such as mammals the abdomen constitutes the part of the body between the thorax and pelvis. The region enclosed by the abdomen is termed the abdominal cavity...

     and pelvis
    • Abdominal pain
      Abdominal pain
      Abdominal pain can be one of the symptoms associated with transient disorders or serious disease. Making a definitive diagnosis of the cause of abdominal pain can be difficult, because many diseases can result in this symptom. Abdominal pain is a common problem...

    • Hepatomegaly
      Hepatomegaly
      Hepatomegaly is the condition of having an enlarged liver. It is a nonspecific medical sign having many causes, which can broadly be broken down into infection, direct toxicity, hepatic tumours, or metabolic disorder. Often, hepatomegaly will present as an abdominal mass...

    • Splenomegaly
      Splenomegaly
      Splenomegaly is an enlargement of the spleen. The spleen usually lies in the left upper quadrant of the human abdomen. It is one of the four cardinal signs of hypersplenism, some reduction in the number of circulating blood cells affecting granulocytes, erythrocytes or platelets in any...

    • Abdominal/pelvic mass, unspec.
    • Abdominal rigidity
    • Ascites
      Ascites
      Ascites is a gastroenterological term for an accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity.The medical condition is also known as peritoneal cavity fluid, peritoneal fluid excess, hydroperitoneum or more archaically as abdominal dropsy. Although most commonly due to cirrhosis and severe liver...

    • Abdominal tenderness

Nonspecific findings on examination of blood

  • Nonspecific findings on examination of blood
    Blood
    Blood is a specialized bodily fluid in animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells....

  • Abnormal red blood cell
    Red blood cell
    Red blood cells are the most common type of blood cell and the vertebrate organism's principal means of delivering oxygen to the body tissues via the blood flow through the circulatory system...

    • Elevated sedimentation rate
      Erythrocyte sedimentation rate
      The erythrocyte sedimentation rate , also called a sedimentation rate or Biernacki Reaction, is the rate at which red blood cells sediment in a period of 1 hour...

    • Abnormal glucose
      • Impaired fasting glucose
      • Impaired glucose tolerance test (oral)
      • Other abnormal glucose
    • Excessive blood level of alcohol
    • Abnormal transaminase
      Transaminase
      In biochemistry, a transaminase or an aminotransferase is an enzyme that catalyzes a type of reaction between an amino acid and an α-keto acid. To be specific, this reaction involves removing the amino group from the amino acid, leaving behind an α-keto acid, and transferring it to the...

      /LDH
      Lactate dehydrogenase
      Lactate dehydrogenase is an enzyme present in a wide variety of organisms, including plants and animals.Lactate dehydrogenases exist in four distinct enzyme classes. Two of them are cytochrome c-dependent enzymes, each acting on either D-lactate or L-lactate...

    • Other nonspecific abnormal serum enzyme
      Enzyme
      Enzymes are proteins that catalyze chemical reactions. In enzymatic reactions, the molecules at the beginning of the process, called substrates, are converted into different molecules, called products. Almost all chemical reactions in a biological cell need enzymes in order to occur at rates...

       levels
    • Abnormal blood chemistry, other
      • Iron overload disorder
        Iron overload disorder
        In medicine, iron overload indicates accumulation of iron in the body from any cause. The most important causes are hereditary hemochromatosis , a genetic disease, and transfusional iron overload, which can result from repeated blood transfusion....

    • Bacteremia
      Bacteremia
      Bacteremia is the presence of bacteria in the blood. The blood is normally a sterile environment, so the detection of bacteria in the blood is always abnormal....

       (not septicemia)
    • Viremia
      Viremia
      Viremia is a medical condition where viruses enter the bloodstream and hence have access to the rest of the body. It is similar to bacteremia, a condition where bacteria enter the bloodstream.- Primary versus Secondary :...

      , unspecified
    • Other nonspecific findings on examination of blood
      Blood
      Blood is a specialized bodily fluid in animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells....

      • Abnormal arterial blood gases
      • Abnormal coagulation profile
      • Abnormal prostate specific antigen
        Prostate specific antigen
        Prostate-specific antigen also known as gamma-seminoprotein or kallikrein-3 is a glycoprotein that in humans is encoded by the KLK3 gene. KLK3 is a member of the kallikrein-related peptidase family that are secreted by the epithelial cells of the prostate gland...

      • Other
        • Reticulocytosis
          Reticulocytosis
          Reticulocytosis is a condition where there is an increase in reticulocytes, immature red blood cell.It is commonly seen in Anemia. They are seen on blood films when the bone marrow is highly active in an attempt to replace red blood cell loss such as in haemolytic anaemia, haemorrhage.-External...

  • Nonspecific findings on examination of urine
    Urine
    Urine is a typically sterile liquid by-product of the body that is secreted by the kidneys through a process called urination and excreted through the urethra. Cellular metabolism generates numerous by-products, many rich in nitrogen, that require elimination from the bloodstream...

    • Proteinuria
      Proteinuria
      Proteinuria means the presence of anexcess of serum proteins in the urine. The protein in the urine often causes the urine to become foamy, although foamy urine may also be caused by bilirubin in the urine , retrograde ejaculation, pneumaturia due to a fistula, or drugs such as pyridium.- Causes...

      • Albuminuria
        Albuminuria
        Albuminuria is a pathological condition wherein albumin is present in the urine. It is a type of proteinuria.Measurement=The amount of protein being lost in the urine can be quantified by collecting the urine for 24 hours, measuring a sample of the pooled urine, and extrapolating to the volume...

    • Hemoglobinuria
      Hemoglobinuria
      In medicine, hemoglobinuria or haemoglobinuria is a condition in which the oxygen transport protein hemoglobin is found in abnormally high concentrations in the urine. The condition is often associated with hemolytic anemia, in which red blood cells are destroyed, thereby increasing levels of free...

    • Glycosuria
      Glycosuria
      Glycosuria or glucosuria is the excretion of glucose into the urine. Ordinarily, urine contains no glucose because the kidneys are able to reclaim all of the filtered glucose back into the bloodstream. Glycosuria is nearly always caused by elevated blood glucose levels, most commonly due to...

  • Nonspecific abnormal findings in other body substances
    • Blood in stool
      Blood in stool
      In medicine, when referring to human feces, blood in stool can refer to multiple conditions:* Melena, with more blackish appearance, originating in upper parts of the gastrointestinal tract...

      , occult
      Occult
      The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus , referring to "knowledge of the hidden". In the medical sense it is used to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e.g...

  • Nonspecific abnormal findings on radiological and other examination
    • Abnormal X-ray
      X-ray
      X-radiation is a form of electromagnetic radiation. X-rays have a wavelength in the range of 0.01 to 10 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 petahertz to 30 exahertz and energies in the range 120 eV to 120 keV. They are shorter in wavelength than UV rays and longer than gamma...

      , lung
      Lung
      The lung is the essential respiration organ in many air-breathing animals, including most tetrapods, a few fish and a few snails. In mammals and the more complex life forms, the two lungs are located near the backbone on either side of the heart...

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    • Mammogram, abnormal, unspec.
  • Nonspecific abnormal results of function studies
    • Peripheral nervous system
      Peripheral nervous system
      The peripheral nervous system consists of the nerves and ganglia outside of the brain and spinal cord. The main function of the PNS is to connect the central nervous system to the limbs and organs. Unlike the CNS, the PNS is not protected by the bone of spine and skull, or by the blood–brain...

       and special senses
      Special senses
      In medicine and anatomy, the special senses are the senses that have specialized organs devoted to them:*vision *hearing and balance *smell *taste...

      • Abnormal auditory function study
    • Cardiovascular
      • Abnormal electrocardiogram
        Electrocardiogram
        Electrocardiography is a transthoracic interpretation of the electrical activity of the heart over a period of time, as detected by electrodes attached to the outer surface of the skin and recorded by a device external to the body...

  • Nonspecific abnormal histological and immunological findings
    • Nonspecific abnormal Papanicolaou smear of cervix
      Cervix
      The cervix is the lower, narrow portion of the uterus where it joins with the top end of the vagina. It is cylindrical or conical in shape and protrudes through the upper anterior vaginal wall...

    • Positive PPD
      Mantoux test
      The Mantoux test is a diagnostic tool for tuberculosis. It is one of the two major tuberculin skin tests used in the world, largely replacing multiple-puncture tests such as the Tine test...

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  • Other nonspecific abnormal findings
    • Elevated BP w/o hypertension
      Hypertension
      Hypertension or high blood pressure is a cardiac chronic medical condition in which the systemic arterial blood pressure is elevated. What that means is that the heart is having to work harder than it should to pump the blood around the body. Blood pressure involves two measurements, systolic and...


Ill-defined and unknown causes of morbidity and mortality (797–799)

  • Senility without mention of psychosis
  • Sudden death, cause unknown
  • Sudden infant death syndrome
    Sudden infant death syndrome
    Sudden infant death syndrome is marked by the sudden death of an infant that is unexpected by medical history, and remains unexplained after a thorough forensic autopsy and a detailed death scene investigation. An infant is at the highest risk for SIDS during sleep, which is why it is sometimes...

  • Other ill-defined and unknown causes of morbidity and mortality
    • Asphyxia
      Asphyxia
      Asphyxia or asphyxiation is a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from being unable to breathe normally. An example of asphyxia is choking. Asphyxia causes generalized hypoxia, which primarily affects the tissues and organs...

    • Respiratory arrest
      Respiratory arrest
      Respiratory arrest is the cessation of breathing. It is a medical emergency and it usually is related to or coincides with a cardiac arrest. Causes include opiate overdose, head injury, anaesthesia, tetanus, or drowning...

    • Nervousness
      Anxiety
      Anxiety is a psychological and physiological state characterized by somatic, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral components. The root meaning of the word anxiety is 'to vex or trouble'; in either presence or absence of psychological stress, anxiety can create feelings of fear, worry, uneasiness,...

    • Debility
    • Cachexia
      Cachexia
      Cachexia or wasting syndrome is loss of weight, muscle atrophy, fatigue, weakness, and significant loss of appetite in someone who is not actively trying to lose weight...

    • Other ill-defined conditions
      • Decreased libido
      • Other ill-defined conditions

See also

  • List of ICD-9 codes
  • ICD-10 Chapter R: Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings
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