IPC Subgroup
A61F 6/12 Inserters or removers
Introduced: January 1990
Last revised: January 2006
Full Title
Contraceptive devices; Pessaries; Applicators therefor > for use by females > Pessaries, i.e. devices worn in the vagina to support the uterus, remedy a malposition or prevent conception > Inserters or removers
Classification Context
- Section:
- HUMAN NECESSITIES
- Class:
- MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- Subclass:
- FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS