VV40

ICD-11 MMS 2026-01

Functions related to the digestive system

Index terms

  • Functions related to the digestive system
  • Ingestion functions
  • Sucking
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  • Biting
  • Chewing
  • Manipulation of food in the mouth
  • Salivation
  • Swallowing
  • Functions involved in swallowing
  • Oral swallowing
  • Functions involved in oral swallowing
  • drooling
  • Pharyngeal swallowing
  • Functions involved in pharyngeal swallowing
  • Oesophageal swallowing
  • Functions involved in swallowing, unspecified
  • Functions of expelling the contents of the stomach, oesophagus or pharynx
  • Vomiting
  • Regurgitating
  • Digestive functions
  • Transport of food through stomach and intestines
  • enzyme production and action in stomach and intestines
  • peristalsis
  • Breakdown of food
  • Absorption of nutrients
  • malabsorption
  • Tolerance to food
  • Functions involved in tolerance to food
  • Assimilation functions
  • functions of storage of nutrients in the body
  • Defecation functions
  • Elimination of faeces
  • Functions involved in elimination of faeces
  • constipation
  • Faecal consistency
  • Functions involved in faecal consistency
  • diarrhoea
  • watery stool
  • Frequency of defecation
  • Functions involved in frequency of defecation
  • Faecal continence
  • Functions involved in faecal continence
  • anal sphincter incompetence
  • faecal incontinence
  • Flatulence
  • Functions involved in the management of intestinal air or gases
  • Weight maintenance functions
  • emaciation
  • maintenance of acceptable Body Mass Index (BMI)
  • Sensations associated with the digestive system
  • Sensation of nausea
  • heartburn
  • Feeling bloated
  • fullness of stomach
  • gas in stomach
  • globus feeling
  • Sensation of abdominal cramp
  • spasm of stomach

Sibling codes

  • VV4Y – Other specified functions of the digestive, metabolic and endocrine systems
  • VV4Z – Functions of the digestive, metabolic and endocrine systems, unspecified

Foundation entity

Functions related to the digestive system – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1976873960

Part of: V: Supplementary section for functioning assessment