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Detailed structure and explanatory notes

CPC Ver.1.1 code 481

• Section: 4 - Metal products, machinery and equipment
• Division: 48 - Medical appliances, precision and optical instruments, watches and clocks
• Group: 481 - Medical and surgical equipment and orthopaedic appliances

This Group is divided into the following Classes:

• 4811 - Apparatus based on the use of X-rays or of alpha, beta or gamma radiations
• 4812 - Electro-diagnostic apparatus, and ultra-violet or infra-red ray apparatus, used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences
• 4813 - Other instruments and appliances (except syringes, needles and the like), used in dental sciences
• 4814 - Medical, surgical or laboratory sterilizers
• 4815 - Other instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical or veterinary sciences (including syringes, needles, catheters, cannulae, ophthalmic instruments and appliances n.e.c. and electro-medical apparatus n.e.c.)
• 4816 - Mechano-therapy appliances; massage apparatus; psychological aptitude-testing apparatus; ozone therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy, artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus; other breathing appliances and gas masks (excluding protective masks having neither mechanical parts nor replaceable filters)
• 4817 - Orthopaedic appliances; splints and other fracture appliances; artificial parts of the body; hearing aids and other appliances which are worn or carried, or implanted in the body, to compensate for a defect or disability
• 4818 - Medical, surgical, dental or veterinary furniture; barbers' chairs and similar chairs, having rotating as well as both reclining and elevating movements