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Vivisectionist

Vivisectionist \Viv`i*sec"tion*ist\, n. One who practices or advocates vivisection; a vivisector.

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vivisectionist

n. One who practices or advocates vivisection; a vivisector.

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vivisectionist

n. cuts open live animals for research

Usage examples of "vivisectionist".

THE LIMITATIONS AND ERRORS OF THE VIVISECTIONISTS The first that strikes one is an exaggeration of the importance and extent of the vivisection method.

Abruptly he realized that he could not call Shaddack, dared not call Shaddack, though they had known each other for more than twenty years, since their days together at Stanford, could not call Shaddack even though it was Shaddack who had made him what he was, because Shaddack would consider him an outlaw now, a regressive, and Shaddack would have him restrained in a laboratory and either treat him with all the tenderness that a vivisectionist bestowed upon a white rat or destroy him because of the threat he posed to the ongoing conversion of Moonlight Cove.

He became a part-time vivisectionist and biologist, adding to his already cyclopedic knowledge of the scientific world, and soon arrived at several alternate theories that had to be tested.

There can be no doubt, however, that the law has always been regarded with marked disfavour by the extreme vivisectionists of Great Britain.