A61D VETERINARY INSTRUMENTS, IMPLEMENTS, TOOLS, OR METHODS
Introduced: September 1968
Classification Context
- Section:
- HUMAN NECESSITIES
- Class:
- MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- Subclass:
- VETERINARY INSTRUMENTS, IMPLEMENTS, TOOLS, OR METHODS
Description
A61D covers instruments, implements, tools, and methods specifically designed for veterinary medical practice and animal healthcare. This subclass encompasses diagnostic, therapeutic, and surgical devices used in treating diseases and injuries in animals, as well as procedures for examination, treatment, and care of animal patients. Examples include veterinary dental instruments, animal surgical tools, restraint devices, and specialized examination equipment adapted for animal handling. This subclass excludes general medical instruments covered under human-oriented classifications and focuses exclusively on technologies modified or developed for veterinary applications.
Scope Notes
Glossary: stock animals kept or raised for use or pleasure. | Limiting references: Apparatus or methods normally used by non-medical personnel in the care of animals to maintain their health e.g. animal husbandry Animal feed bags Sucking apparatus for young stock Animal dehorners Apparatus to help wean animals Devices for assisting or preventing mating Animal feeding-stuffs with antibiotics Mouth openers for use on humans and animals
Related Keywords
11 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- A61D 1/00 Surgical instruments for veterinary use
- A61D 11/00 Washing devices or gaseous curative baths specially adapted to veterinary purposes
- A61D 13/00 Thermometer holders specially adapted to veterinary purposes
- A61D 15/00 Mouth openers
- A61D 17/00 Devices for indicating trouble during labour of animals
- A61D 19/00 Instruments or methods for reproduction or fertilisation
- A61D 3/00 Arrangements for supporting or fettering animals for veterinary purposes
- A61D 5/00 Instruments for treating animals' teeth
- A61D 7/00 Devices or methods for introducing solid, liquid or gaseous remedies or other materials into or onto the bodies of animals
- A61D 9/00 Bandages, poultices or compresses specially adapted to veterinary purposes
- A61D 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass