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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. Because the claw develops from germinal tissue within the third phalanx, amputation of the bone is necessary to fully remove the claw.
Amputation is a common enough phenomenon for dogs due to injury or disease and in many instances, the dogs actually get around better after their surgeries than they did on four limbs.
Replantation or reattachment is defined as the surgical reattachment of a body part (such as a finger, hand, or toe) that has been completely cut from the body. [1] Examples include reattachment of a partially or fully amputated finger, or reattachment of a kidney that had had an avulsion-type injury.
In Monticello, Florida, Derrick visits the Juniper Wildlife Rescue, run by Zach and Jess, to help a fox named Fig. Fig was born with a missing foot but used the shortened leg like a crutch. Unfortunately, a break in the leg required partial amputation and now it's too short to be used as a support, and remaining ankle is collapsing.
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The Krukenberg procedure separates the bony remnants of the forearm into a makeshift pincer. The procedure involves separating the ulna and radius for below-elbow amputations, and in cases of congenital absence of the hand, to provide a pincerlike grasp that is motored by the pronator teres muscle.
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Hand transplantation, or simply a hand transplant, is a surgical procedure to transplant a hand from one human to another. The donor hand, usually from a brain-dead donor, is transplanted to a recipient amputee. Most hand transplants to date have been performed on below-elbow amputees, although above-elbow transplants are gaining popularity.