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A61F 2/78

Means for protecting prostheses or for attaching them to the body, e.g. bandages, harnesses, straps, or stockings for the limb stump

Introduced: January 1985

Title

Titles differ between systems:

IPC: Means for protecting prostheses or for attaching them to the body, e.g. bandages, harnesses, straps or stockings for the limb stump

CPC: Means for protecting prostheses or for attaching them to the body, e.g. bandages, harnesses, straps, or stockings for the limb stump

Full Title

Full titles differ between systems:

IPC:

Filters implantable into blood vessels; Prostheses, i.e. artificial substitutes or replacements for parts of the body; Appliances for connecting them with the body; Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents > Prostheses not implantable in the body > Means for protecting prostheses or for attaching them to the body, e.g. bandages, harnesses, straps or stockings for the limb stump

CPC:

Filters implantable into blood vessels; Prostheses, i.e. artificial substitutes or replacements for parts of the body; Appliances for connecting them with the body; Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents (dental prostheses A61C13/00; artificial kidneys A61M1/14; artificial hearts A61M60/00) > Prostheses not implantable in the body > Means for protecting prostheses or for attaching them to the body, e.g. bandages, harnesses, straps, or stockings for the limb stump

CPC subdivides this area 10x more granularly than IPC with 9 additional codes.

9 codes are CPC-only extensions.

Note: 8 CPC extensions are marked as secondary classification only.

IPC defines codes here since 1985.

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