vivisect
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(v)
vivisect
cut (a body) open while still alive "people no longer vivisect animals--it's considered unethical"
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Vivisect
To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive.
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vivisect
To dissect the living body of; practise vivisection upon; anatomize, as a living animal. -
vivisect
To practise vivisection; dissect a living animal.
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(v.t)
Vivisect
to practise vivisection on
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L. vivus, alive, sectio—secāre, to cut.
Apple's brief experiment in employing one of the most brilliant hackers to ever vivisect its machines seems to be over. forbes.com
Judge gives doctor a legal vivisection. stormlake.com
To vivisect it for redistribution is to kill it. nationalreview.com
Has he ever thought on the subject of vivisection? "The Patient Observer" by
An earlier controversy, in which his name was involved, was that which raged round the practice of vivisection. "Victorian Worthies" by
Rather like a biologist planning the details of an interesting vivisection. "Legacy" by
Which gathers most knowledge from a vivisection, the attentive student or the writhing frog? "Half a Hero" by
On behalf of Liberal Party, PREMIER proposed the vivisection of Ireland. "Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 18, 1914" by
The man who can vivisect an emotion, and lay bare a heart-beat in print, knows a subtle joy. "Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8" by
It would be a case of vivisection all round. "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies" by
They do not know what their own opinions are, until the victim of vivisection tells them. "Eugenics and Other Evils" by
I would go out of that door and in ten minutes I would have a subject ready for vivisection. "A Black Adonis" by
Consider a poor dog whom they are vivisecting in a laboratory. "The Will to Believe" by
The little victim, mad with thirst,
Is jerked back, well-nigh vivisected,
Till pain and hunger do their worst.
The tragic Muse with mimic grief shall try,
But, nobler far, a course of vivisections
Teach what it costs a tortured brute to die.
Purchase that animal for me!
By vivisection, at expense
Of half-an-hour and eighteen pence,
How brain secretes dog's soul, we'll see!'"
To any stranger in cruel vivisection,
I have seen a man's eyes break in marvelous
Dread of his own dark act and its detection:
And one half swore as stoutly it was t' other;
Both drew the knife to save the Nation's life
By wholesale vivisection of each other.