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n. The act or practice of cutting into or otherwise injuring living animals, especially for the purpose of scientific research.

n. The action of cutting, surgery or other invasive treatment of a living organism for the purposes of physiological or pathological scientific investigation.

n. The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations.

n. Dissection of a living body; the practice of anatomizing alive, or of experimenting upon living animals, for the purpose of investigating some physiological function or pathological process which cannot well be otherwise determined

n. the act of operating on living animals (especially in scientific research)

"In fact, the number of security personnel, members of the media, and casual observers may have surpassed that of actual demonstrators, but more protesters arrived over the next hour, carrying signs with such slogans as “vivisection is scientific fraud” and “we cannot cure humans by torturing animals.”"

operation    surgical procedure    surgical process    surgery    surgical operation   

painless vivisection   

innoculation    variola    ramping    sound    daimio