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Definitions for Vivisection
[1] the action of cutting into or dissecting a living body.
[2] the practice of subjecting living animals to cutting operations, especially in order to advance physiological and pathological knowledge.
[3] the act or practice of performing experiments on living animals, involving cutting into or dissecting the body
Words related to Vivisection
postmortem, distribution, selection, disunion, dissolution, disjuncture, apportionment, divorce, breaking, reduction, split, detachment, separation, disjunction, rupture, parting, subdivision, divorcement, demarcation, partition
Words nearby Vivisection
vivid, vivification, vivify, viviparous, vivisect, vivisection, vivisectionist, vivo, vivyan, vixen, viyella
Origin of Vivisection
First recorded in 1700–10; vivi- + section
Other words from Vivisection
viv·i·sec·tion·al , adjective
viv·i·sec·tion·al·ly , adverb
viv′i•sec′ tion•ist n.
Word origin for Vivisection
C18: from vivi-, from Latin vīvus living + section , as in dissection
Synonyms for Vivisection
analysis, apportionment, autopsy, bisection, breaking, carving, demarcation, detachment, diagnosis, disjunction, disjuncture, dismemberment, dissolution, distribution, disunion, divorce, divorcement, parceling, parting, partition, reduction, rupture, segmentation, selection, separation, split, subdivision, breaking down, breaking up, contrasting, cutting up, departmentalizing, detaching, disparting, disseverance, disseverment, distinguishing, disuniting, dividing, rending, separating, splitting up