By Violet Solomon The ICD-10 stands for international Classification of Diseases and other Related Health Problems, tenth revision. It is used to code diseases and signs, the related symptoms, all the abnormal findings and complaints, the social circumstances and the external causes of injury and diseases. The coding list is published and updated by World Health Organization (WHO) and is used in many other countries other than US. The ICD-10-PCS in particular means the International Classification of Disease 10 Procedure Coding System and consists of both numeric and alphabetical codes ranging from three to seven in total. The first digit in the code is used to indicate the medical practice section which can be surgery, monitoring, measuring, administration or any other section. The next digits specify the body system, root operation, the body part, the approach used and devices used in that order. The last character (seventh) is used as a qualifying digit. The first three char...