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vivi·sec·tion (viv′ə seks̸hən)

noun

medical research consisting of surgical operations or other experiments performed on living animals to study the structure and function of living organs and parts, and to investigate the effects of diseases and therapy

Etymology: < L vivus, alive (see bio-) + section

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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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