Surgical, medical, dental and veterinary apparatus and instruments, artificial limbs and orthopedic articles; prostheses, endoprostheses, vascular prostheses, urethral prostheses and their parts, especially stems and ball heads and caps; implants, especially joint implants and implants covered with coating materials, implants for teeth and jaw, artificial teeth and dentures as well as pins for artificial teeth, artificial jaws; coronary and vascular implants, especially stents; implants for the spine; artificial joints, ligaments, tendons and artificial heart valves as well as flexible ducts for medical purposes; measuring devices, instruments and tools for the implantation of prostheses and parts of prostheses and also for the operative treatment of fractures, patterns and templates for orthopedic purposes, fixators, fixation plates, bone screws, bone nails and bone pins; pedicle screws, expansion screws, rasps, reamers, drilling guides, impactors, marking guides and medullary plugs; medical diagnosis apparatus, analysis apparatus for medical purposes and blood pressure measuring apparatus; tools for the contouring and polishing of teeth and dentures; cutting and grinding discs for dental use; bone cement for orthopedic surgery; needles, splints, saws and probes for medical purposes; instruments for endoscopy and arthroscopy and also their parts; gastroscopes; defibrillators and pace makers and also associated electrodes, ablation instruments and heart wires, pumps for medical purposes, lasers for medical purposes