Commentary for Chullin 105:24

ואיכא דאמרי

Now you might have thought that it discharges the poison at once when it strikes with the claw, we therefore learn that it discharges the poison only when it withdraws the claw.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that if the claw had been amputated before it had been withdrawn from the victim, the latter is not trefah, for at the time when the poison is discharged the limb was already dead.');">⁷</span>

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