Definition of "vivisection" []

• The act or practice of cutting into or otherwise injuring living animals, especially for the purpose of scientific research. (noun)

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