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vivisection

[ viv-uh-sek-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the action of cutting into or dissecting a living body.
  2. the practice of subjecting living animals to cutting operations, especially in order to advance physiological and pathological knowledge.


vivisection

/ 藢惫瑟惫瑟藞蝉蓻办蕛蓹苍 /

noun

  1. the act or practice of performing experiments on living animals, involving cutting into or dissecting the body
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

vivisection

  1. The practice of examining internal organs and tissues by cutting into or dissecting a living animal, especially for the purpose of scientific research.

vivisection

  1. The cutting up or dissection of animals, including anesthetized live animals, in scientific research. Vivisection is also a general term for the use of animals as subjects in laboratory experiments, especially in the development of new medical techniques and drugs.
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Notes

Vivisection, as well as the general use of animals in medical research, is a target of protest by animal rights advocates.
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Derived Forms

  • 藢惫颈惫颈藞蝉别肠迟颈辞苍补濒, adjective
  • 藢惫颈惫颈藞蝉别肠迟颈辞苍补濒ly, adverb
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 惫颈惫顎卛路蝉别肠顎僼颈辞苍路补濒 adjective
  • 惫颈惫顎卛路蝉别肠顎僼颈辞苍路补濒路ly adverb
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of vivisection1

First recorded in 1700鈥10; vivi- + section
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of vivisection1

C18: from vivi-, from Latin 惫墨惫耻蝉 living + section , as in dissection
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Among the horrors he described were vivisections performed without anesthesia on those who had been deliberately administered germs; doctors wanted to see firsthand how the ensuing diseases infected the body.

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Unit 731 is also believed to have performed vivisections and frozen prisoners to death in tests of endurance.

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The title essay is arguably her masterpiece, a cool vivisection of a place and time when the center fell apart.

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His criticism workshops, a curricula staple for budding critics and dramaturgs, were an experience in literary vivisection, as he homed in on every clich茅 and woolly idea in that week鈥檚 student essay.

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But 鈥淏londe鈥 subjects Monroe to its own grisly vivisection.

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