|  | A |
SECTION A — HUMAN NECESSITIES

HEALTH AND AMUSEMENT

|  | A61 |
MEDICAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE

|  | A61B |
DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION

|  | A61B |
Note(s) This sub-class covers instruments, implements, and processes for diagnostic, surgical and person-identification purposes, including obstetrics, instruments for cutting corns, vaccination instruments, finger-printing, psycho-physical tests.

|  | A61C |
DENTISTRY; ORAL OR DENTAL HYGIENE (tooth brushes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A46B; preparations for dentistry Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61K 5/00)

|  | A61D |
VETERINARY INSTRUMENTS, IMPLEMENTS, TOOLS, OR METHODS

|  | A61D |
Note(s) This sub-class only covers instruments, implements, tools, or methods specially adapted for use with animals.

|  | A61F |
PROSTHESES (artificial teeth Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61C 13/00); SPLINTS; BANGAGES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS;

|  | A61G |
TRANSPORT AND ACCOMMODATION FOR PATIENTS; OPERATING TABLES AND CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; BURIAL DEVICES (walking aids Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61H 3/00)

|  | A61H |
PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHS OR WASHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY (electrotherapy, magnetotherapy, radiation therapy Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61N)

|  | A61H |
Note(s) In this sub-class the term "physical therapy" covers the treatment of disease or disability by means, e.g. mechanical means, as opposed to drugs or surgery. It includes, by way of example, massage, whirlpool baths and devices for exercising a passive body member.

|  | A61J |
PUTTING-UP PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE

|  | A61K |
PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES (bringing into special physical form Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61J; soap compositions Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C11D)

|  | A61K |
Note(s) This sub-class includes the following subject matter, whether set forth as a composition (mixture), process of preparing the composition or process of treating using the composition: Drug and other biological compositions which are capable of: Preventing, alleviating, treating or curing abnormal and pathological conditions of the living body by such means as destroying a parasitic organism, or limiting the effect of the disease or abnormality by chemically altering the physiology of the host or parasite (pesticides, herbicides Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01N 9/00), Maintaining, increasing, decreasing, limiting, or destroying a physiological body function, e.g. vitamin compositions, sex sterilants, fertility inhibitors, growth promotors, etc. (chemical treatment of plants Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01N 5/00), Diagnosing a psychological condition or state by an in vivo test, e.g. X-ray contrast and skin patch test compositions (in vitro testing of biological material, e.g. blood, urine, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G01N 33/16). Body treating compositions generally intended for deodorising, protecting, adorning or grooming a body, e.g. cosmetics, dentifrices, tooth filling materials.

|  | A61L |
METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OTHER THAN FOODSTUFFS; CHEMICAL PURIFICATION OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES OR DRESSINGS OR SUTURE MATERIALS (preservation of corpses Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01N)

|  | A61M |
DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO OR ONTO THE BODY (introducing media into or onto the bodies of animals Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61D 7/00; devices for administering food or medicines orally Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61J); DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY (surgery Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61B)

|  | A61M |
Note(s) This sub-class covers suction, pumping or atomising devices for medical use (cups, breast relievers, irrigators, sprays, powder insufflators, atomisers, inhalers), apparatus for general or local anaesthetics, devices or methods for causing a change in the state of consciousness, catheters, dilators, apparatus for introducing medicines into the body other than orally.

|  | A61N |
ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY (measurement of bio-electric currents Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61B; massage arrangements in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61H; anaesthetic apparatus in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61M; incandescent lamps Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H01K; infra-red radiators for heating Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H05B)