The term “device” (except when used in RCW 69.04.016 and in RCW * 69.04.040(10), ** 69.04.270, 69.04.690, and in RCW 69.04.470 as used in the sentence “(as compared with other words, statements, designs, or devices, in the labeling)”) means instruments, apparatus, and contrivances, including their components, parts and accessories, intended (1) for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in human beings or other animals; or (2) to affect the structure or any function of the body of human beings or other animals.
[ 2009 c 549 § 1019; 1945 c 257 § 11; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 6163-60.]

NOTES:

Reviser’s note: *(1) RCW 69.04.040 was amended by 2018 c 236 § 601, deleting subsection (10).
**(2) RCW 69.04.270 was repealed by 2018 c 236 § 801.

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