Vivisection

[vɪvɪ'sekʃ(ə)n] or [,vɪvɪ'sɛkʃən]

Definition

(noun.) the act of operating on living animals (especially in scientific research).

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Definition

(n.) The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations.

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Definition

n. the practice of making operations or painful experiments on living animals for the purposes of physiological research or demonstration.—v.t. Vivisect′ to practise vivisection on.—adj. Vivisec′tional.—ns. Vivisec′tionist one who practises or defends vivisection; Vivisec′tor one who practises vivisection; Vivisectō′rium a place for vivisection.

Editor: Miriam