Onychectomy
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onychectomy-182-14687707
title:
Onychectomy
text:
Onychectomy, popularly known as declawing, is an operation to remove an animal's claws surgically by means of the amputation of all or part of the distal phalanges, or end bones, of the animal's toes. Because the claw develops from germinal tissue within the third phalanx, amputation of the bone is necessary to fully remove the claw. The terms onychectomy and declawing imply mere claw removal, but a more appropriate description would be phalangectomy, excision of toe bone. Although it has been s
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Surgical removal of an animal's claws
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onychectomy
date created:
2005-02-11T00:04:50Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T12:14:31Z
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image:
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