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  2. Category:Medical devices - Wikipedia

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    A medical device is an instrument, apparatus, implant, in vitro reagent, or similar or related article that is used to diagnose, prevent, or treat disease or other conditions, and does not achieve its purposes through chemical action within or on the body (which would make it a drug).

  3. Global Medical Device Nomenclature - Wikipedia

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    Global Medical Device Nomenclature (GMDN) is a system of internationally agreed generic descriptors used to identify all medical device products. This nomenclature is a naming system for products which include those used for the diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment or alleviation of disease or injury in humans.

  4. List of eponymous medical devices - Wikipedia

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    cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list : Auvard's speculum: Alfred Auvard: Gynaecology: vaginal speculum [4] Luer taper, Luer lock: Hermann Wülfing Luer: General use: Fitting to ensure leak-free connection in medical fluid administration systems [5] Penrose drain: Charles Bingham Penrose: Surgery

  5. Glossary of medicine - Wikipedia

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    Medical classification – A medical classification is a list of standardized codes used in the process of medical coding and medical billing. Medical coding – The practice of assigning statistical codes to medical statements, such as those made during a hospital stay.

  6. Category:Medical equipment - Wikipedia

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    I. Ice pack; Impedance cardiography; Inadine; Incentive spirometer; Incubator (culture) Inhaler spacer; Injector pen; Instruments used in cardiology; Instruments used in dermatology

  7. Instruments used in general medicine - Wikipedia

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    Medical halogen penlight: to see into the eye, natural orifices, etc. and to test for pupillary light reflex, etc. Medical ultrasound: to create an image of internal body structures Nasogastric tube: for nasogastric suction or the introduction of food or drugs into the body Nebulizer: to produce aerosols of drugs to be administered by ...

  8. Medical device - Wikipedia

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    This article needs to be updated.The reason given is: the section related to E.U. needs further updates (esp. in sections 3.2 and 4.2.2) as the directives 93/42/EEC on medical devices and 90/385/EEC on active implantable medical devices have been fully repealed on 26 May 2021 by Regulation (EU) no. 2017/745 (MDR); furthermore, Brexit triggers updates in these sections (U.K. developed their own ...

  9. Lists of medical eponyms - Wikipedia

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    However, because of the nature of the history of medicine, new discoveries are often referred to using the name of the people who initially made the discovery. List of eponymous diseases; List of eponymous fractures; List of eponymous medical devices; List of eponymous medical signs; List of eponymous medical treatments; List of eponymous ...