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  • noun Plural form of vivisection.

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Examples

  • A contemporary woodcut shows him calmly dining at a full table as impalements and vivisections take place before him.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Among other things he attempted to change eye color by injecting dye into eyes, sterilized women and girls, performed vivisections on pregnant women, and applied electric shock and amputated healthy limbs to test pain tolerance.

    Alan Singer: American Mengele Alan Singer 2011

  • I recalled interviewing an elderly Japanese soldier several years earlier who told me that he had performed vivisections, without anesthetic, on naked prisoners.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » 2010 » May 2010

  • I recalled interviewing an elderly Japanese soldier several years earlier who told me that he had performed vivisections, without anesthetic, on naked prisoners.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Biological Weapons Amnesia 2010

  • Among other things he attempted to change eye color by injecting dye into eyes, sterilized women and girls, performed vivisections on pregnant women, and applied electric shock and amputated healthy limbs to test pain tolerance.

    Alan Singer: American Mengele Alan Singer 2011

  • A contemporary woodcut shows him calmly dining at a full table as impalements and vivisections take place before him.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • I recalled interviewing an elderly Japanese soldier several years earlier who told me that he had performed vivisections, without anesthetic, on naked prisoners.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Biological Weapons Amnesia 2010

  • I recalled interviewing an elderly Japanese soldier several years earlier who told me that he had performed vivisections, without anesthetic, on naked prisoners.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » 2010 » May 2010

  • Graus vaccinated healthy children with infectious diseases, performed vivisections, and injected his victims with different mixtures of the anesthesia he was developing in order to measure their reaction to pain.

    The Moses Expedition Juan Gómez-Jurado 2007

  • Graus vaccinated healthy children with infectious diseases, performed vivisections, and injected his victims with different mixtures of the anesthesia he was developing in order to measure their reaction to pain.

    The Moses Expedition Juan Gómez-Jurado 2007

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