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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The act or practice of cutting into or otherwise injuring living animals, especially for the purpose of scientific research.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Dissection of a living body; the practice of anatomizing alive, or of experimenting upon living animals, for the purpose of investigating some physiological function or pathological process which cannot well be otherwise determined Vivisection strictly includes only cutting operations; but the term is extended to any physiological experimentation upon living animals, as compression of parts by ligatures, subjection of the creature to special conditions of atmospheric pressure, temperature, and food, exhibition of poisons or other drugs, inoculation of disease, etc. Vivisection in competent and humane hands, under proper and reasonable restrictions, is fruitful of good results to the sciences of physiology and pathology.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The action of cutting, surgery or other invasive treatment of a living organism for the purposes of physiological or pathological scientific investigation.

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

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

Etymologies

  1. Latin vivus alive + English section: compare French vivisection. See vivid, and section (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin vīvus, alive; see vivify + (dis)section. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “In fact, the number of security personnel, members of the media, and casual observers may have surpassed that of actual demonstrators, but more protesters arrived over the next hour, carrying signs with such slogans as “vivisection is scientific fraud” and “we cannot cure humans by torturing animals.””

    Caught in the Line of Fire: Animal Rights Activists Take Over Oxford

  • “The question of vivisection is not agitated here, because it is practised so commonly and with such reckless cruelty by mere medical apprentices, that it is accepted as a thing of course.”

    Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters

  • “4 Among the Revolutionists were many surgeons, and in vivisection they attained marvellous proficiency.”

    Chapter 21: The Roaring Abysmal Beast

  • “Health Culture opposes as needless and wasteful of life those research activities known as vivisection, also as contrary to human interest the use of drugs, serums, vaccines and chemicals as medicines or preventives of disease by legal compulsion.”

    No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes

  • “I do not know whether you have attended the movement against vivisection, which is becoming lively.”

    Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman

  • “This video is part one of a series that will be covering the fraudulent science called vivisection and it's murder of animals and people.”

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  • “tube down the neck flesh pulled back to crawl underneath the skin the corporate death no sentiment the pain sustained at will they preach on high morals lie in this farce called vivisection”

    Resurrecting Yusaku Matsuda

  • “In some of these, Hastings compares the nature if not the scope of Japanese atrocities to those of the Nazis, who used some similar methods of torture or death, such as vivisection of unanesthetized prisoners.”

    2008 May 19 « One-Minute Book Reviews

  • “Ladies and gentleman of the audience, I am here to present the controversial topic of vivisection which is also better known as animal testing.”

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions

  • “Other terms for animal experimentation include 'vivisection', 'animal testing', and 'animal research'.”

    Indymedia Ireland

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. callisection
  2. vivisectional
  1. vivisectionist
  2. vivisector
  1. ranarium
  2. antivivisection
  1. antivivisectionist
  2. curarize
  1. vivisect
  2. sentisection
  1. viviperception
  2. zoötomy

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  • milosrdenstvi Gentle Jane was as good as gold,
    She always did as she was told;
    She never spoke when her mouth was full,
    Or caught bluebottles their legs to pull,
    Or spilt plum jam on her nice new frock,
    Or put white mice in the eight-day clock,
    Or vivisected her last new doll,
    Or fostered a passion for alcohol.
    And when she grew up she was given in marriage
    To a first-class earl who keeps his carriage!

    -- W.S. Gilbert, Patience Aug 20, 2008

  • bilby frogapplause, please look away NOW. Aug 20, 2008

  • milosrdenstvi I participated in the vivisection of a frog last year. We bathed it in cocaine first, so it died happy. I subsequently removed its heart, which continued beating for an hour afterwards.

    Awesome!! Aug 20, 2008

  • emily_morine OK, I just love the "vi" sound. It gets me every time. Dec 8, 2006

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