Diagnosis Code: 781.1

Short Description: Smell & taste disturb

Long Description: Disturbances of sensation of smell and taste

Code Classification:

• Symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions (780–799)
  • Symptoms (780-789)
    • 781 Symptoms involving nervous and musculoskeletal systems
      • 781.1 Smell & taste disturb

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM

Synonyms

• Abnormal taste in mouth
• Abnormal unpleasant perception of strong scent
• Agnosia for smell
• Anterior tongue taste disorder
• Complaining of anosmia
• Complaining of loss of taste sense
• Congenital anosmia
• Disorder of olfactory system
• Disorder of smell
• Disorder of taste
• Franklinic taste
• Garlic taste
• Glossopharyngeal taste disorder
• Heightened olfactory perception
• Heightened perception of taste
• Hemiageusia
• Hypogeusia
• Loss of sense of smell
• Loss of taste
• Loss of taste anterior two thirds of tongue
• Loss of taste posterior one third of tongue
• Metallic taste
• Mucosal anosmia
• Neurologic unpleasant taste
• On examination - anosmia
• On examination - loss of touch sensation
• On examination - smell abnormal
• On examination - taste loss anterior 2/3 tongue
• On examination - taste loss posterior 1/3 tongue
• Phantom taste
• Primary acid taste disorder
• Primary bitter taste disorder
• Primary salt taste disorder
• Primary sweet taste disorder
• Primary taste disorder
• Problem of sense of smell
• Pseudogeusesthesia
• Radiation induced taste impairment
• Secondary acid taste disorder
• Secondary bitter taste disorder
• Secondary salt taste disorder
• Secondary sweet taste disorder
• Secondary taste disorder
• Sense of smell altered
• Sense of smell impaired
• Sensitive to smells
• Sensitivity to individual odor
• Sensory disorder of smell and/or taste
• Taste of food lingers
• Taste sense altered
• Taste-blindness
• Things smell different
• Unusual smell in nose

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 781.1 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

• Ageusia (see also Disturbance, sensation) 781.1

• Anesthesia, anesthetic 782.0
  • olfactory 781.1

• Anosmia (see also Disturbance, sensation) 781.1
  • hysterical 300.11
  • postinfectional 478.9
  • psychogenic 306.7
  • traumatic 951.8

• Anosphrasia 781.1

• Disorder - see also Disease
  • sense of smell 781.1
    • psychogenic 306.7

• Disturbance - see also Disease
  • olfactory nerve 781.1
  • sensation (cold) (heat) (localization) (tactile discrimination localization) (texture) (vibratory) NEC 782.0
    • smell 781.1
    • taste 781.1

• Dysgeusia 781.1

• Hyperosmia (see also Disturbance, sensation) 781.1

• Loss
  • sense of
    • smell (see also Disturbance, sensation) 781.1
    • taste (see also Disturbance, sensation) 781.1
    • touch (see also Disturbance, sensation) 781.1

• Merosmia 781.1

• Parageusia 781.1
  • psychogenic 306.7

• Parosmia 781.1
  • psychogenic 306.7

• Perversion, perverted
  • sense of smell or taste 781.1
    • psychogenic 306.7

• Sense loss (touch) (see also Disturbance, sensation) 782.0
  • smell 781.1
  • taste 781.1

Crosswalk Information

The code 781.1 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):

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