Surgical, medical, dental and veterinary instruments or apparatus for placing or for preparing the placement of implants in body tissue; prostheses, namely knee and hip joint prostheses and knee and hip joint shafts; endoprostheses for the hip, spine, elbow and knee; artificial limbs and eyes; suture materials, namely sutures; vascular prostheses, ureteroprostheses and their component parts, namely shafts and spherical heads; implants consisting of artificial materials, namely, joint implants and implants covered with coating materials; dental and jaw implants, artificial teeth, dentures and tooth pins; artificial jaws; coronary and vascular stent implants; surgical implants comprising artificial material, namely, spinal column implants; artificial joints, ligaments, tendons and artificial heart valves as well as flexible lines for medical purposes; surgical apparatus, namely, measurement apparatus, instruments and tools for the implantation of prostheses and component parts of prostheses, and also for the operative treatment of fractures; templates for orthopedic purposes; surgical instruments, namely, fixators, plates, bone screws, bone nails, pedicle screws, expansion screws, rasps, milling cutters, drilling jigs, hammering instruments, marking jigs and medullary space blockers; medical diagnostic apparatus, namely tension measuring devices for ligaments, and navigation apparatus for mapping of body structure; medical analytical apparatus for preparing the placement of implants in body tissue, and blood pressure measuring apparatus; dental tools for the contouring and polishing of teeth and artificial teeth; cutting and grinding discs for dental applications; nails, rails, saws and probes for medical purposes; apparatus for endoscopy and for arthroscopy and also their component parts; gastroscopes; defibrillators and heart pacemakers and associated electrodes, ablation apparatus and heart wires; pumps for medical purposes, namely blood pumps and dialysis pumps; and lasers for medical purposes