Equipment refers to instruments, devices, apparatus, in vitro diagnostic reagents and calibrators, materials, and other similar or related items used directly or indirectly on the human body, including the required computer software.

Equipment and medical supplies are included in the instruments.

Efficiency is primarily achieved through physical means, not via pharmacology, immunology, or metabolism, or even if these methods are involved, they only serve as auxiliary.

The purpose is for disease diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, and relief; injury diagnosis, monitoring, relief, or functional compensation; examination, substitution, regulation, or support of physiological structures or processes; life support or maintenance; pregnancy control; and providing information for diagnostic purposes by examining samples from the human body.