Onychectomy
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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.
Close-up of a declawed paw
Onychectomy being performed
A claw cutter
Cat with red nail caps
Phalanx bone
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The phalanges are digital bones in the hands and feet of most vertebrates. In primates, the thumbs and big toes have two phalanges each, while the other digits have three phalanges each. The phalanges
Onychectomy
…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…
The phalanges in a human hand
Distal phalanges of a Masai giraffe
Three-fingered sloth
Terminal phalanx of a Scelidotherium ground sloth