Vivisection Definition

vĭvĭ-sĕkshən, vĭvĭ-sĕk-
noun
Medical research consisting of surgical operations or other experiments performed on living animals.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Vivisection

Noun

Singular:
vivisection
Plural:
vivisections

Origin of Vivisection

  • Latin vivus alive + English section: compare French vivisection. See vivid, and section

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin vīvus alive vivify (dis)section

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Vivisection Sentence Examples

  • It also encouraged vivisection - a practice common with Descartes himself.

  • Some dogs are sent on a one-way trip to the vivisection laboratory.

  • I am not anti-science, but I do believe that vivisection is not the way forward.

  • Now begins the next phase in the fight to end vivisection.

  • However, this stock needs to be replenished, and wild primates are still being caught for the vivisection business.

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Words Starting With

VVIVIV

Words Ending With

NONION

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vivisection

Words Starting With V and Ending With N

Starts With V & Ends With NStarts With VI & Ends With NStarts With V & Ends With ON

Word Length

11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With V11 Letter Words Ending With N