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.
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.
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:
Body treating compositions generally intended for deodorising, protecting, adorning or grooming a body, e.g. cosmetics, dentifrices, tooth filling materials.
Attention is drawn to the definitions of groups of chemical elements following the title of Section C.
In this sub-class, in the absence of an indication to the contrary, an invention is classified in the last appropriate place.
In groups Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61K 31/00-A61K 47/00 it is desirable to add, in conformity with paragraph 80 of the Guide, after the double oblique stroke the symbols relating to complementary information concerning individual components of a substance which is already classified as such as a technical subject.
METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF, OR USE OF MATERIALS FOR, BANDAGES OR DRESSINGS; MATERIALS FOR SURGICAL SUTURE OR FOR LIGATURING BLOOD VESSELS (preservation of bodies, disinfecting characterised by the agent employed Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01N; preserving, e.g. sterilising, food or foodstuffs Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A23; preparation of ozone Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C01B 13/10) [3]
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.