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This part of ISO 80369 specifies general requirements for SMALL-BORE CONNECTORS, which convey liquids or gases in healthcare APPLICATIONS. These SMALL-BORE CONNECTORS are used in MEDICAL DEVICES or ACCESSORIES intended for use with a PATIENT. This International Standard also specifies the healthcare fields in which these SMALL-BORE CONNECTORS are intended to be used. These healthcare fields of use include, but are not limited to, APPLICATIONS for: - BREATHING SYSTEMS and driving gases, - enteral and gastric, - urethral and urinary, - limb cuff inflation, - neuraxial devices, and - intravascular or hypodermic. SMALL-BORE CONNECTORS as specified in this International Standard are NON-INTERCONNECTABLE with: - the cones and sockets of ISO 5356-1:2004 and ISO 5356-2:2006; - the temperature sensor CONNECTOR and mating ports specified in Annex DD of ISO 8185:2007; and - the nipples of EN 13544-2:2002.