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vivisect
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viv·i·sect  (vv-skt)
v. viv·i·sect·ed, viv·i·sect·ing, viv·i·sects
v.tr.
To perform vivisection on (a living animal).
v.intr.
To practice vivisection.
[Back-formation from vivisection.]
vivi·sector n.
vivisect [ˈvɪvɪˌsɛkt ˌvɪvɪˈsɛkt]
vb
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) to subject (an animal) to vivisection
[back formation from vivisection]
vivisector  n
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Verb1.vivisect - cut (a body) open while still alive; "people no longer vivisect animals--it's considered unethical"
dissect - cut open or cut apart; "dissect the bodies for analysis"
Translations
vivisect
vt → vivisezieren
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46) Although some researchers initially believed that curare had anesthetic properties (and some believed that animals had no awareness of pain generally), (47) such beliefs may simply have been the product of wishful thinking on the part of vivisectors who, as a matter of course, routinely cut open and dissected fully conscious animals.
Anesthetizing the public conscience: lethal injection and animal ... by Alper, Ty / Fordham Urban Law Journal
In addition to vivisectors such as Bernard, Victorian society also gave birth to legislation against animal cruelty, with the SPCA founded in 1824, the Vegetarian Society in 1847, and the antivivisectionist movement during the 1870s.
Animals and animality from the Island of Moreau to the Uplift universe by Vint, Sherryl / Yearbook of English Studies
The Roslin Institute's latest "breakthrough" with chicken eggs that fight disease looks like another load of hogwash presented to the public by vivisectors trying to defend their indefensible torture of animals without human benefit.
Letter: Your view - A bad yolk by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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