Surgical, medical, dental and veterinary instruments and apparatus for placing or for preparing the placement of implants in body tissue; artificial limbs and eyes; orthopedic articles, namely, orthopedic joint implants and artificial joints; suture materials, namely sutures; prostheses, namely, hip joint prostheses and hip joint shafts as well as prostheses for the knee, hip, elbow, shoulder, hand and finger, endoprostheses, in particular shafts and spherical heads; implants consisting of artificial materials, in particular joint implants and coating implants, dental and jaw implants, artificial teeth and dentures as well as tooth pins, artificial jaws; artificial joints; measurement apparatus, instruments and tools, namely, medical and surgical apparatus and instruments, namely, orthopedic fixation device used in orthopedic transplant and/or implant surgery for the implantation of prostheses and parts of prostheses and also for the operative treatment of fractures, templates for orthopedic purposes; fixators, namely, orthopedic fixation device used in orthopedic transplant and/or implant surgery for bones; plates for the fixation of bones; bone screws and bone nails, pedicle screws, expansion screws, rasps, milling cutters, drilling jigs, hammering instruments and marking jigs, all for medical purposes, as well as medullary space blockers consisting of artificial materials; medical diagnostic apparatus, analytical apparatus for medical purposes and blood pressure measuring apparatus; dental instruments, namely, tools for the contouring and polishing of teeth and artificial teeth; cutting and grinding discs for dental applications