Other diseases of tongue
Billable / specific
K14.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Atrophy of tongue
- Crenated tongue
- Enlargement of tongue
- Glossocele
- Glossoptosis
- Hypertrophy of tongue
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from K14)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from K14)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from K14)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from K14)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from K14)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from K14)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from K14)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from K14)
- erythroplakia (K13.29) (from K14)
- focal epithelial hyperplasia (K13.29) (from K14)
- leukoedema of tongue (K13.29) (from K14)
- leukoplakia of tongue (K13.21) (from K14)
- hairy leukoplakia (K13.3) (from K14)
- macroglossia (congenital) (Q38.2) (from K14)
- submucous fibrosis of tongue (K13.5) (from K14)
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
- code to identify: (from K14)
- alcohol abuse and dependence (F10.-) (from K14)
- exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22) (from K14)
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891) (from K14)
- occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31) (from K14)
- tobacco dependence (F17.-) (from K14)
- tobacco use (Z72.0) (from K14)
Also known as
- Atrophy of tongue
- Crenated tongue
- Enlargement of tongue
- Glossocele
- Glossoptosis
- Hypertrophy of tongue
- Adhesions, adhesive, tongue, congenital, acquired
- Atrophy, atrophic, tongue
- Cicatrix, tongue
- Cyst, tongue
- Deformity, tongue, acquired
- Disease, diseased, tongue, specified NEC
- Enlargement, enlarged, tongue
- Glossoncus
- Glossoplegia
- Hemiatrophy, tongue
- Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic, tongue
- Hypertrophy, hypertrophic, frenulum, frenum
Parent code
- K14Diseases of tongueHeader