K14.8
Other diseases of tongue
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 15 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
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 13
Index entries leading here 20
- Deformity Q89.9
- Adhesions, adhesive (postinfective) K66.0
- Macroglossia (congenital) Q38.2
- acquired K14.8
- Atrophy, atrophic (of)
- tongue (senile) K14.8
- Cicatrix (adherent) (contracted) (painful) (vicious) L90.5
- tongue K14.8
- Crenated tongue K14.8
- Cyst (colloid) (mucous) (simple) (retention)
- tongue K14.8
- Disease, diseased — see also Syndrome
- Enlargement, enlarged — see also Hypertrophy
- tongue K14.8
- Hypertrophy, hypertrophic
- Glossocele K14.8
- Glossoncus K14.8
- Glossoplegia K14.8
- Glossoptosis K14.8
- Hemiatrophy R68.89
- tongue K14.8
- Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic (concealed) R58
- tongue K14.8
- Infection, infected, infective (opportunistic) B99.9
- thyroglossal duct K14.8
- Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) G83.9
- tongue K14.8
- Spasm (s) , spastic, spasticity R25.2
- tongue K14.8
- Thickening
- tongue K14.8
Alongside this code 8 same parent — K14
Additional references
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