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onychectomy

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onychectomy /on·y·chec·to·my/ (on″ĭ-kek´tah-me) excision of a nail or nail bed.
on·y·chec·to·my (n-kkt-m)
n.
Surgical removal of a toenail or fingernail.

onychectomy [on″ĭ-kek´to-me]
excision of a nail or nail bed.

onychectomy
excision of a claw or nail or claw or nail bed. A surgical procedure carried out on single, damaged or diseased claws and at other times in domestic cats for social reasons and exotic cats, canines and ursids for the well-being of handlers and cage-mates.

nail clipper onychectomy
a guillotine-type nail clipper is used to remove the third phalanx in cats.


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