Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to vivisection.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to vivisection.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
vivisection .
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Examples
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The black and white model instruction sheets, with their vivisectional horror icons and M. C. Escher-esque complexities of lines, arrows, grafts and chart intersections, are works of art in themselves, suitable for framing.
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The black and white model instruction sheets, with their vivisectional horror icons and M. C. Escher-esque complexities of lines, arrows, grafts and chart intersections, are works of art in themselves, suitable for framing.
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From an interest and participation in medicine, a complete reversal in her attitude towards it because of the vivisectional basis of most of it.
Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch Michael Moukhanoff
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If he were to scorn an offer to sell his father for vivisectional purposes, we should applaud enthusiastically his altruism.
If I May 1919
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His vivisectional experiments, for instance, demonstrate that the electrical stimulation of a definite spot on the surface of a dog's brain produces movements which we should ordinarily take as expressions of mental states, movements of the front legs or of the tail, movements of barking or whining.
Psychotherapy Hugo M��nsterberg 1889
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The work is strictly psychological, not vivisectional; and it is our special purpose to bring animal psychology more in contact with those methods which have found their development in the laboratories for human psychology.
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Most of the work has been done by physiologists who relied upon vivisectional methods.
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Whilst the schools of medicine in this country are as a rule not liable to the charge of vivisectional abuses as regards the higher animals, we cannot altogether acquit them from a rather reckless expenditure of the lives and feelings of cold-blooded creatures ....
An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals Albert Leffingwell 1880
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“As medical historian Brandon Reines put it: The net effect of Bernard’s publications on the pancreas was to begin to canonize the vivisectional element of his experimental medicine at the expense of clinical analysis.
He no longer heard the cries of the animals or saw the flowing blood.... 2009
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Sir Henry Morris, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, being asked substantially the same question, replied: "I think the present Act of 1876, under which vivisectional experiments are done, WAS AMPLY PROTECTIVE AGAINST
An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals Albert Leffingwell 1880
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