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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Painful vivisection; the dissection of living animals without recourse to anesthetics or other means of preventing pain: opposed to callisection.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Painful vivisection; -- opposed to callisection.

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  • noun archaic painful vivisection

Etymologies

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Latin sentire to feel + English section.

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