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vivisector

  • a word derived from vivisect.
    vivisect
    verb (used with object)
    to dissect the living body of (an animal).

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The laboring masses do not believe the false excuses of the vivisector, because they know that the vivisector experiments on hospital patients; and the masses belong to the hospital patient class.

From The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded by Bernard Shaw

Yet the vivisector would have us believe that in all cases of his "anaesthesia" the dog is unconscious.

From An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Albert Leffingwell

"Trust us absolutely," demands the vivisector of to-day.

From An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Albert Leffingwell

It was a curious coincidence certainly, that in his last days the vivisector was affected by a disease of the spinal cord, which at one time compelled him to go on all-fours like a beast.

From An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Albert Leffingwell

Precisely the reason why this poison was employed in the investigations before us we have no means of knowing by anything the vivisector has stated in his report.

From An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Albert Leffingwell

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