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- Dictionaryvivisect/ˈvɪvɪsɛkt/
verb
- 1. (used only by opponents of the practice) perform vivisection on (an animal): "people are vivisecting animals and experimenting with germ warfare"
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Vivisection is surgery conducted for experimental purposes on a living organism, typically animals with a central nervous system, to view living internal structure. The word is, more broadly, used as a pejorative catch-all term for experimentation on live animals by organizations opposed to animal experimentation, but the term is rarely used by practicing scientists. Human vivisection, such as liv... Wikipedia