vivisection
noun
the action of cutting into or dissecting a living body.
vivisectional
-
a word derived from
vivisection.
Example Sentences
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David Cronenberg’s latest is a gripping and exquisitely horrible movie about Hollywood – positively vivisectional in its sadism and scorn – written by industry satirist Bruce Wagner.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 8, 2014
The work is strictly psychological, not vivisectional; and it is our special purpose to bring animal psychology more in contact with those methods which have found their development in the laboratories for human psychology.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
From an interest and participation in medicine, a complete reversal in her attitude towards it because of the vivisectional basis of most of it.
From Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch by Michael Moukhanoff
Most of the work has been done by physiologists who relied upon vivisectional methods.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
