ICD-11 classes
21 Symptoms, signs or clinical findings, not elsewhere...
Symptoms, signs or clinical findings of the digestive...
Symptoms or signs involving the digestive system or abdomen
Symptoms related to the lower gastrointestinal tract or...
ME05 — Change in bowel habit
ME05.0 — Constipation

ICD-11 ME05.0 — Constipation

Constipation is an acute or chronic condition in which bowel movements occur less often than usual or consist of hard, dry stools that are often painful or difficult to pass. Here constipation other than specifically described elsewhere such as in motility disorders of intestine or in functional bowel diseases, is described.

It has no clarifying diagnoses.

The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:

• Change in bowel habit #15062