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vivisection

[ UK /vˌɪvɪsˈɛkʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of operating on living animals (especially in scientific research)

How To Use vivisection In A Sentence

  • Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. George Bernard Shaw 
  • 4 Among the Revolutionists were many surgeons, and in vivisection they attained marvellous proficiency. Chapter 21: The Roaring Abysmal Beast
  • 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.
  • Kate might as well have said vivisection for all the reaction it got, although then again maybe that was what Malcolm was into. FALLEN WOMEN
  • The antivivisection lobby has in the past claimed that we can use computer models of organisms instead of real animals.
  • However, we shall consider a few general questions, and then we shall set up the scientific goal which vivisection has in view.
  • 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
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