Sicca syndrome

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Classification according to ICD-10
H04.1 Keratoconjunctivitis sicca, in the sense of dry eye syndrome
K11.7 Disorders of salivary secretion -
xerostomia
J31.0 Rhinitis sicca
M35.0 Sicca Syndrome (Sjogren's Syndrome)
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

With sicca syndrome ( lat. Siccus , dry 'and Greek. Sýndromos concomitantly') a descriptive is (descriptive) symptom complex designated the different in the broadest sense, a wetting interference organ structures of the eye , the nose and the mouth area is, and thus a dehydration leads. The term sicca syndrome is not used consistently even in medical terminology and is used to denote

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