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cut (a body) open while still alive
people no longer vivisect animals--it's considered unethical
How To Use vivisect In A Sentence
- In 1986 Britain passed a law which orders all vivisectors to show the value of new experiments is greater than the animal suffering inflicted.
- He occupied the illustrious post of Slade Professor of art at Oxford when convocation voted to endow vivisection in the University and install Dr. Burdon Sanderson, the smotherer of dogs, in a laboratory set up for him. Great Testimony against scientific cruelty
- 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. Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
- 4 Among the Revolutionists were many surgeons, and in vivisection they attained marvellous proficiency. Chapter 21: The Roaring Abysmal Beast
- Dixon had vivisected him, leaving a line of staples down his broad chest. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
- I see the point about animal vivisection from both sides of the argument.
- The animal lover may find this book a little cold, but it is a contribution to the antivivisection debate that is desperately needed if the movement is ever to turn the minds of those who will only listen to ‘science’.
- I think that vivisection can probably be justified in certain medically important cases.
- Indeed, the antivivisectionist ancestors of today's animal rightists attempted to stop the research of Louis Pasteur that led to the discovery of the rabies vaccine.
- To Regin, she said, You told me to kill the magister after you got vivisected. Dreams of a Dark Warrior