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The ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries is a(n) __________, which include specific illnesses, injuries, eponyms, abbreviations, and other descriptive diagnostic terms.

For carcinoma of breast with spread to the lungs, the primary site is __________.

Which term describes the cause or origin of disease?

The ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS classifications include updated medical terminology and classification of diseases, provide codes to allow for the comparison of mortality and morbidity data, and provide __________ for the purpose of conducting research, designing payment systems, identifying fraud and abuse, and more.

Major topic headings in the tabular list of ICD-10-CM are known as __________.

Which punctuation is used in the ICD-10-CM index and tabular list to enclose nonessential modifiers; which are supplementary words that may be present in or absent from the physician’s statement of a disease or procedure without affecting the code number to which it is assigned?

A three-character ICD-10-CM category code that has no further subdivision is a(n) __________ code.

Obstructive rhinitis is represented by which ICD-10-CM code?

Which instruction directs the coder to the main term for a diagnosis code, found in the ICD-10-CM disease index?

ICD-10-CM categories, subcategories, and codes contain __________.