Crossword clues for vivisection
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vivisection \Viv`i*sec"tion\, n. [L. vivus alive + E. section: cf. F. vivisection. See Vivid, and Section.] The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"dissection of a living animal," 1694, from Latin vivus "alive" (see vivid) + ending from dissection). Related: Vivisectionist.
Wiktionary
n. The action of cutting, surgery or other invasive treatment of a living organism for the purposes of physiology or pathology scientific investigation.
WordNet
n. the act of operating on living animals (especially in scientific research)
Wikipedia
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 rarely used by practicing scientists. Human vivisection has been perpetrated as a form of torture.
Usage examples of "vivisection".
With the present ideals of the modern physiological laboratory, so far as they favour the practice of vivisection in secrecy and without legal regulation, the writer has no sympathy whatsoever.
No agreement regarding vivisection can be anticipated or desired with any man who holds that some vague and uncertain addition to the sum total of knowledge would justify experiments made upon dying children in a hospital, without regard to their personal benefit, or sanction the infliction of any degree of agony upon animals in a laboratory.
So far as known, it was the first argument that ever found expression in the pages of any American periodical favouring not the entire abolition of vivisection, but the reform of its abuse.
Nor as regards the rightfulness of vivisection as a method either of study or demonstration, was there at that period any question in my mind.
In the third of a century that has elapsed since this protest was made, the practice of vivisection has taken vast strides: it appears in new shapes and unanticipated environment.
How was the cruelty of vivisection once regarded by the leading members of the medical profession?
Shall we say to-day that the utility of torment, in the vivisection of animals, constitutes perfect justification and defence?
What has been accomplished by the agitation concerning vivisection which has persisted for the last forty years?
What has been the result of vivisection in America, unrestricted and unrestrained?
Is the above definition of vivisection stronger than is implied by this assertion of Dr.
We need constantly to remember that vivisection is by no means a simple act.
According to this view, all vivisection is an immoral infringement upon the rights of animals.
The injury which the practice of vivisection causes to the moral sense of the individual and to humanity far outweighs any possible benefit that could be derived from it.
Painless or painful, useless or useful, however severe or however slight, vivisection is a practice so linked with cruelty and so pernicious in tendency, THAT ANY REFORM IS IMPOSSIBLE, and it should be absolutely prohibited by law for any purpose.
It is against this view that the arguments of those who contend for vivisection, without restriction or restraint, are always directed.