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Signs and symptoms that point rather definitely to a given diagnosis have been assigned to other categories. This category includes the less well-defined conditions and symptoms that, without the necessary study of the case to establish a final diagnosis, point perhaps equally to two or more diseases or to two or more systems of the body.

The conditions and signs or symptoms included in this category consist of:

1. cases for which no more specific diagnosis can be made even after all the facts bearing on the case have been investigated;
2. signs or symptoms existing at the time of initial encounter that proved to be transient and whose causes could not be determined;
3. provisional diagnoses in a patient who failed to return for further investigation or care;
4. cases referred elsewhere for investigation or treatment before the diagnosis was made;
5. cases in which a more precise diagnosis was not available for any other reason;
6. certain symptoms, for which supplementary information is provided, that represent important problems in medical care in their own right.

Excludes: abnormal findings on antenatal screening of mother & certain conditions originating in the perinatal period.

• Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems;
• Symptoms and signs involving the digestive system and abdomen;
• Symptoms and signs involving the skin and subcutaneous tissue;
• Symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems;
• Symptoms and signs involving the urinary system;
• Symptoms and signs involving cognition, perception, emotional state and behaviour;
• Symptoms and signs involving speech and voice;
• General symptoms and signs;
• Abnormal findings on examination of blood, without diagnosis;
• Abnormal findings on examination of urine, without diagnosis;
• Abnormal findings on examination of other body fluids, substances and tissues, without diagnosis;
• Abnormal findings on diagnostic imaging and in function studies, without diagnosis Ill-defined and unknown causes of mortality.