What is vivisection?

  • (noun): The act of operating on living animals (especially in scientific research).

Vivisection

Vivisection (from Latin vivus, meaning "alive", and sectio, meaning "cutting") is defined as surgery conducted for experimental purposes on a living organism, typically animals with a central nervous system, to view living internal structure. The term is sometimes more broadly defined as any experimentation on live animals (see animal testing.) The term is often used by organizations opposed to animal experimentation but is rarely used by practicing scientists. Human vivisection has been perpetrated as a form of torture.

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Human Vivisection
... Prisoners of war were subjected to various forms of vivisection, in many cases without anesthesia ... Nazi human experimentation involved medical experiments on live subjects, such as vivisections by Josef Mengele, usually without anesthesia ...
Louise Lind-af-Hageby - Ideas - Anti-vivisection
... Lind af Hageby was opposed to vivisection both for the sake of the animals and because she regarded it as bad science, though she told a Royal Commission on ...
Anti-vivisection
... Vivisection (from Latin vivus, meaning "alive", and sectio, meaning "cutting") is defined as surgery conducted for experimental purposes on a living organism, typically ... Human vivisection has been perpetrated as a form of torture ...
Louise Lind-af-Hageby - Selected Works
... The Anti-Vivisection Review ... The Journal of Constructive Anti-Vivisection, St ... survey of the first three volumes of minutes of evidence given before the Royal commission on vivisection", pamphlet, 1908 ...