K14.0
Glossitis
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 16 never code together
K14code
K00-K95chapter
Excludes2
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 9
Index entries leading here 13
- Abscess (connective tissue) (embolic) (fistulous) (infective) (metastatic) (multiple) (pernicious) (pyogenic) (septic) L02.91
- Aphthae, aphthous — see also condition
- cachectic K14.0
- Glossitis (chronic superficial) (gangrenous) (Moeller's) K14.0
- Disease, diseased — see also Syndrome
- Fede's disease K14.0
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative
- Gangrene, gangrenous (connective tissue) (dropsical) (dry) (moist) (skin) (ulcer) I96
- glossitis K14.0
- Gingivoglossitis K14.0
- Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic) B99.9
- tongue NEC K14.0
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory (with exudation)
- tongue K14.0
- Moeller's glossitis K14.0
- Papillitis H46.00
- tongue K14.0
- Riga (-Fede) disease K14.0
Alongside this code 8 same parent — K14
Additional references
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