---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 882.5225"
title: "21"
number: "882.5225"
heading: "Implanted malleable clip."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/882.5225"
---

# §882.5225. Implanted malleable clip.

- (a) **Identification.** An implanted malleable clip is a bent wire or staple that is forcibly closed with a special instrument to occlude an intracranial blood vessel or aneurysm (a balloonlike sac formed on a blood vessel), stop bleeding, or hold tissue or a mechanical device in place in a patient.
- (b) **Classification.** Class II (performance standards).

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 351, 360, 360c, 360e, 360j, 360 l, 371.

### Source

Source: 44 FR 51730, Sept. 4, 1979, unless otherwise noted.