Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or practice of cutting into or otherwise injuring living animals for the purpose of scientific research.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The action of
cutting ,surgery or other invasive treatment of a livingorganism for the purposes ofphysiological orpathological scientific investigation.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of operating on living animals (especially in scientific research)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.”
Archive 2006-01-01 Nick Anthis 2006
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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 Nick Anthis 2006
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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.
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4 Among the Revolutionists were many surgeons, and in vivisection they attained marvellous proficiency.
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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 Rupert H. Wheldon
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I do not know whether you have attended the movement against vivisection, which is becoming lively.
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking
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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.
WN.com - Articles related to Flu shots raised to $25, but will include H1N1 2010
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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.
WN.com - Articles related to Flu shots raised to $25, but will include H1N1 2010
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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.
WN.com - Articles related to Flu shots raised to $25, but will include H1N1 2010
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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.
WN.com - Articles related to Flu shots raised to $25, but will include H1N1 2010
emily_morine commented on the word vivisection
OK, I just love the "vi" sound. It gets me every time.
December 8, 2006
milosrdenstvi commented on the word vivisection
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!!
August 20, 2008
bilby commented on the word vivisection
frogapplause, please look away NOW.
August 20, 2008
milosrdenstvi commented on the word vivisection
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
August 21, 2008