vivisection
vivisection
Definition
vivi·sec·tion (viv′ə sek′s̸hən)
vivisection
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- defend: The inability to defend vivisection was also illustrated by a letter included on the British Medical Journal website.
- oppose: Bad Science There are many reasons to oppose vivisection.
- believe: I am not anti-science, but I do believe that vivisection is not the way forward.
- stop: I have heard anti vivisectionists claim that they want to stop vivisection from within the system.
- end: Now begins the next phase in the fight to end vivisection.
- support: The notes are from readers instructing me to reply to letters supporting vivisection which have appeared in their local newspapers.
Preposition: on
- ground: Opposition to vivisection on medical grounds is growing, and is in direct proportion to awareness of the facts.
Adjective modifier
- human: Most human vivisection takes place in the " third world " or on vulnerable people, such as Pongo, in the West.
- second: Second, vivisection is probably the best and longest established form of organized, officially acknowledged animal cruelty.
Modifies a noun
- lab: Many are killed through shooting, drowning or being sold to vivisection labs or by being abandoned.
- laboratory: All of the monkeys are to be sold to vivisection laboratories.
- industry: The vivisection industry hired a public relations firm to resist the proposal.
- experiment: However, in our opinion, the IAMS vivisection experiments have involved among the highest levels of pain and suffering.
- movement: You should then be able to recruit them to the anti vivisection movement.
- facility: Companion dogs and cats have been stolen or fraudulently obtained by licensed animal dealers and sold to vivisection facilities.
Noun used with modifier
- primate: The nightmare scenario of Cambridge becoming the primate vivisection capital of Europe had ended.
- anti-: Also, Scientific anti- vivisection for comprehensive, referenced medical information.
Possessives
- undoing: Dr. James Le Fanu, ' In sickness and in health: vivisection's undoing ' , Daily Telegraph, 23 November 2003.
Preposition: in
- order: Victims of Vivisection In order to further increase profits, the racing industry funds research into welfare problems created by racing.
Preposition: for
- reason: Scientists outside the pharmaceutical industry support vivisection for several reasons.
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