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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about pinguecula and death from pinguecula.
Meaning of pinguecula
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, pinguecula:
(a)          means a small, raised benign elastoic conjunctival degeneration presenting as a fatty nodule near the temporal or nasal limbus (corneal-scleral junction) of the eye; and
(b)          excludes pterygium.
(3)          While pinguecula attracts ICD‑10‑AM code H11.1, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of pinguecula is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from pinguecula
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, pinguecula, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's pinguecula.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.