Medical device means an instrument, apparatus, appliance, material or other article, including the required software, used alone or in combination in the human body; whose use on the surface of the human body and in the body is not obtained by pharmacological, immunological or metabolic means, but which may be involved in these means and play a certain auxiliary role; and whose use is intended to achieve the following intended purposes:
(1) prevention, diagnosis, treatment, guardianship, and alleviation of disease (i) the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, guardianship, and mitigation of disease;
(ii) the diagnosis, treatment, guardianship, mitigation, and compensation of injury or disability;
(iii) the study, substitution, and regulation of anatomical or physiological processes;
(iv) the control of pregnancy.