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toe clipping

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-006398

Removing one or more digits from the paws of a small laboratory animal such as a mouse or rat in order to distinguish it from other animals in a research study.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-006398
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectAnimals, Livestock, One Health
ReferencesNAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary
See alsoanimal identification
TranslationsSpanish: recorte de dedos
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-006398",
  "term": "toe clipping",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "Removing one or more digits from the paws of a small laboratory animal such as a mouse or rat in order to distinguish it from other animals in a research study.",
  "subject": "Animals, Livestock, One Health",
  "see_also": [
    "animal identification"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "recorte de dedos"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/toe-clipping/"
}

Record 6,398 of 6,908 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.