The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD-10) is a coding of diseases and signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances and external causes of injury or diseases, as classified by the World Health Organization (WHO). This page contains ICD-10 Chapter I: Certain infectious and parasitic diseases.
Famous quotes containing the words infectious, parasitic and/or diseases:
“Paganism is infectious—more infectious than diphtheria or piety....”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.”
—Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980)
“But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need of a physician who shall minister to both soul and body at once, that is, to man. Now he falls between two stools.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)